Excerpt from Ancient Egypt: Its Monuments and History Egypt is divided into three parts, Upper, Mid dle, and Lower. The_'first, Upper Egypt, bears the name of the Thebaid, from its ancient and principal city; and the third, Lower Egypt, is best known as the Delta, from its resemblance in form to the figure of the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet. The mouths of the Nile are connected with One another by many cana.s which intersect the Delta, and there are several lakes lying along the border of the Mediterranean. Of the mountains which inclose the Egyptian valley, those on the western side are composed of a limestone formation, containing many fossil shells. Those on the eastern have, in addition to limestone, granite and sandstone and be tween the islands Of Philae and Assouan, is found that peculiar kind of rose-colored granite, known as the Syenite, of which so many of the inter resting monuments of Egypt are formed. The mountains are of moderate elevation, and bare of vegetation from their bases to their summits. They are not equally distant from each other, so. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.