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Quotation from Meteorology by Aristotle
“The whole land of the Egyptians, whom we take to be the most ancient of men, has evidently gradually come into existence and been produced by the river”
Meteorology, Book I, Part 14, trans. E. W. Webster (1923)
Aristotle's chief example of land formed by river silt, supported by the failed canal of Sesostris and Darius to the Red Sea.
Citation: "The whole land of the Egyptians, whom we take to be the most ancient of men, has evidently gradually come into existence and been produced by the river" — Aristotle, Meteorology, Book I, Part 14, trans. E. W. Webster (1923). (id aristotle-meteorology-q3)
