Nilometer

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Lanchester concludes that “words longer mean what they once did. It is not a process intended to deceive, but, like the Nilometer, it confines knowledge to a priesthood—the priesthood of people who can speak money.”

From Forbes • Aug. 7, 2014

Citadel and Mosque of Mahomet Ali The old Nilometer, for measuring the depths29 of the Nile, which was erected in 716, is of interest.

From Travels in the Far East by Peck, Ellen Mary Hayes

This is the isle of Rodda, on the bank of which Moses was found, and where you may see the Nilometer.

From The Rulers of the Mediterranean by Davis, Richard Harding

From Old Cairo we crossed over to the Island of Roda, to see the Nilometer.

From What We Saw in Egypt by Anonymous

He looked uneasily at the Nilometer, in which the water had sunk.

From Historical Miniatures by Strindberg, August