INDEX

A
Abai river, [13]
Abu Zeid ford, [42]
Abydos spring level, [67]
Abyssinia, [13], [19], [43]
Adarma, [45]
Addis Ababa, [16], [20], [44], [214]
Aird, Sir John, [75]
Akobo, [37]
Albert Lake, [11], [12], [14], [15], [18], [29], [30], [31]
— — reservoir, [81], [82], [87], [90]
— — tributaries, [31]
Albert Nile in 1841, [38]
— — catchment basin, [17], [119]
— — description, [31]-[35]
— — observed discharges, [129]-[134]
— — discharges, [22], [56], [81], [82], [93]
— — discharge table, [144], [145]
— — gauges, [168]-[174]
— — projects, [58], [81], [89]-[92]
— — slopes, [14], [120]
— — tributaries, [31], [32], [34]
— — velocities, [15], [121]
Alexandria, [20], [220]
Ambatch, [31], [92]
Amenemhat, [47], [66], [79]
Analysis of water and soil, [62], [100]-[101]
Anderson, Mr. Lang, [64]
Appendices, [117]
Arab, Bahr el, [36]
Assiout Weir, [49], [150]
Asua River, [32]
Assuân gauge compared to Bombay rainfall, [213]
— dam, [48], [61], [75], [76], [77], [87], [89]
— distances from and to, [124], [125]
— discharges, [25], [58]-[60], [139]-[142]
— discharge table, [150]
— gauges, [48], [52], [94], [97], [98], [153], [158], [164]-[166], [194]-[202], [209]
— meteorological data, [20], [218]
Atem river, [32], [33], [90]
Atbara river, catchment basin, [17], [19], [119]
— — description, [13], [45], [69]
— — discharges, [24], [47], [58], [60], [138]-[140]
— — discharge table, [149]
— — gauges at Khashm el Girba, [188], [189]
— — tributaries, [45]
B
Baharia Oasis, [109]
Baker, Sir Benjamin, [75]
Baker, Sir Samuel, [11], [34], [39], [40]
Barometric readings, [215]-[220]
Barois, M. J., [61], [62]
Barrages, The, [50], [53], [54], [74], [82], [99], [123], [124], [151], [152], [207], [208]
Basalt, [22], [114]
Basin irrigation, [59], [65], [66], [67], [68], [79], [93], [94], [99], [100], [159]-[166]
— — in the Sudan, [102]
Beadnell, Mr. H. G. F., [107]
Beresford, Mr. J. S., [89]
Berkeley, Fort, [31]
Berber, [46], [217]
— gauges, [190]-[193]
Blue Nile, catchment basin, [17], [119]
— — description, [12], [13], [18], [21], [41], [43], [61]
— — observed discharges, [129], [136], [137]
— — discharges, [24], [46], [57], [60], [139]-[141]
— — discharge table, [147], [148]
— — distances along, [128]
— — gauges, [179]-[182], [183]-[187]
— — projects, [43], [44], [103]
— — slope, [15]
— — tributaries, [44]
— — velocities, [44]
Bombay, [20], [213]
Bor, [32], [89], [99]
Brown, Sir Hanbury, [66], [77], [79], [89], [99]
C
Cairo, [16], [20], [22], [24], [25], [50], [52], [53], [59], [94], [97], [98], [142], [150], [158], [164]-[166], [219]
— gauges, [203]-[206], [210]
Cassel, Sir Ernest, [75]
Cataracts, [14], [46], [47], [48], [88], [102], [103]
Catchment basins, [16], [18], [119]
Chapters, [11], [26], [56], [73], [107]
Chavanne, Joseph, [12]
Chélu Bey, [5]
Choga, Lake, [15], [28], [30], [121], [122]
Clifton, Mr. C., [77]
Climate of the Nile Valley, [18], [27], [102], [214]-[220]
Congo forest, [29]
Conversion tables for pics and metres, [211], [212]
Corvée, [70]
Cotton, [82], [88], [102], [103], [104]
Course of the Nile, [12]
Cretaceous, [111]
Cromer, Lord, [100]
Cultivated area of Egypt, [73]
D
Dakhla Oasis, [107]
Damer, El, [13], [45]
Damietta branch, [14], [15], [53], [54], [60], [61], [70], [85], [123], [139], [140]
— — discharge table, [152]
— — gauges, [208]
Darfur, [17]
D’Arnaud, [38]
De Gottberg, [47]
De la Motte, [74]
Didessa, [44]
Dinder river, [17], [21], [44], [101]
Diodorus Siculus, [78]
Discharges observed, [129]-[138]
Discharge table for Assuân, Assiout & Cairo, [150]
— — — Damietta branch, [152]
— — — Duem, [146]
— — — Gondokoro, [144]
— — — Khashm el Girba, [149]
— — — Khartoum, [148]
— — — Mongalla, [145]
— — — Ripon Falls, [143]
— — — Rosetta branch, [151]
— — — Sobat river, [145]
— — — Tewfikia, [146]
— — — Wadelai, [144]
— — — Wady Haifa, [151]
Distances of places along the Damietta and Rosetta branches, [123]
Distance Barrage to Assuân, [124]
— Assuân to Khartoum, [125]
— Khartoum to Gondokoro, [126]
— Gondokoro to the Ripon Falls, [127]
— Khartoum to Rosaires, [128]
Discharges, [18], [22], [56]-[60], [81]-[84], [90], [95], [139]-[142], [159]-[163]
— Victoria Nile, [27]
— Semliki river, [29]
— Lake Albert, [29]
— Albert Nile, [32]-[34]
— Gazelle river, [35]
— Zeraf river, [36]
— Sobat river, [37]
— White Nile, [41]
— Blue Nile, [43]-[44]
— Atbara, [45]
Discharges Nile at Khartoum, [46]
— — — Assuân, [49]
— — — Cairo, [52]
— — — Rosetta and Damietta branches, [55]
Dongola, [47]
Drainage, [69]
Drury, Lt., R.N., [41]
Duem, [42], [43], [46], [57], [135], [141], [146], [178]
Dueru, Lake, [29]
Dufile, [13], [31], [90]
Dulaib Hilla. 37, [134], [145], [176]
Dupuis, Mr. C., [5], [43], [44], [101], [103]
E
Eads, Mr., [86]
Edku, Lake, [64]
Edward, Lake Albert, [12], [29]
— — — tributaries, [29]
Egypt, [25], [73], [85], [87], [88], [93], [99], [100]
Emin Pasha, [40]
Electrical development possible, [28], [29], [31], [103]
Elephantine Island, [48]
Eocene, [112]
Esna shales, [112],
Evaporation, [27], [30], [41], [43], [44], [96]
F
Farafra, [110]
Fayoum, The, [66], [79], [81]
Fitzmaurice, Mr. Maurice, [75]
Floods, [70], [71], [72], [85], [87], [88], [98]
Foaden, Mr. G. P., [61], [63], [103]
Fola Rapids, [14], [31]
Fowera, [14], [28]
Fuller, Mr. J. B., [69]
G
Gaash river, [21], [45], [46], [101], [103]
Gage’s channel, [34]
Garak depression, [81]
Garstin, Sir W. E., [5], [11], [12], [26], [29], [32], [41], [75], [82], [83], [85], [88], [89], [91], [92], [99], [101]
Gauges, [48], [50], [51], [52], [53], [117], [153]
— Assuân, [194]-[201], [209]
— Assuân Reservoir, [202]
— Berber, [190]-[193]
— Cairo, [203]-[206]
— Damietta branch, [208]
— Duem, [178]
— Dulaib Hilla, [176]
— Gondokoro, [169]-[172]
— Jinja, [166]
— Khartoum, [183]-[187]
— Khasm el Girba, [188]-[189]
— Mongalla 173-[174]
— Nasser, [175]
— Rosetta branch, [207]
— Tewfikia, [177]
— Wad Medani, [179]-[182]
— Wadelai, [168]
Gazelle river, [13], [15], [16], [17], [18], [19], [23], [35], [40], [56], [83], [129], [133]
— — discharges, [139], [140]
— — tributaries, [36]
Gebel, Bahr-el-, [12]
Gebelain, [42]
Geology, [21], [110]
Gessi Pasha, [40]
Gezireh, [100], [102], [103]
Ghaba Shambe, [32], [37], [41]
Gold, [114]
Gondokoro, [23], [32], [56], [90], [91], [119], [122], [126], [127], [139], [140], [141]
— gauges, [169]-[172]
— discharge table, [144]
Gordon, [40]
Gosrejeb, [45]
Green water, [61]
Granites, [21], [111]
H
Hansard, Mr., [5]
Herodotus, [78], [80]
Hewat, Mr. Marshal, [77]
Hillet Nuer, [33], [34], [40], [83], [84]
Hughes, Mr. Frank, [64], [100]
I
Ibrahim Effendi Fehmy, [105]
Igneous rocks, [111]
Infiltration, [53], [59], [60], [81], [84], [90]
Introduction, [11]
Irrigation, [65], [66], [68], [69], [93], [96], [97], [99], [102], [105], [106], [108], [109], [110], [159]-[163].
Ismail Pasha Ayub, [40]
J
Jinja gauge, [167]
K
Kafr Zayat, [54]
Kagera river, [12], [26], [28]
Kalabsha, [74]
Kamlin, [21], [24], [46]
Kankar, [21]
Karanain, [54]
Kassala, [46]
Kharga oasis, [109]
Khartoum 13, [14], [15], [20], [21], [24], [43], [44], [46], [57], [60], [100], [135]-[142], [216]
— distances to and from, [125], [126], [128]
— discharge table, [148]
— gauges, [183]-[187]
Khasm el Girba, [45], [138]
— discharge table, [149]
— gauges 188, [189]
Kit river, [32]
Kom Ombos, [22], [113]
Kordofan, [17]
Kushesha, [78]
L
Lado, [40]
Lepsius, [47]
Letheby, [61], [62]
Linant Pasha, [42], [55]
Limestone, [22], [114]
— Nodular, [21]
Lolle, [35], [84]
Lombardini, Elia, [5], [11], [12], [38], [60]
Luxor, [22]
Lyons, Capt. H.G., [5], [11], [18], [21], [26], [27], [33], [44], [84]
M
Mackenzie, Dr., [62]
Manures, [63], [69]
Marno, Signor, [40], [84]
Martyr, Col., [41]
Mean low water levels, [94], [158]
Megahid channel, [35]
Mehemet Ali, Viceroy, [38], [54], [68], [73], [74]
Menes, [79]
Meteorological data, [214]-[220]
Miocene, [113]
Mississippi river, [33]
Mœris Lake, [66], [74], [76], [78], [81]
Mongalla, [132]
— discharge table, [145]
— gauges, [173], [174]
N
Napoleon, [48]
Nasser, [37]
— gauge, [175]
Navigation, [14], [28], [32], [44]
Nero, [38]
Nile, The, [11], [12], [15], [16], [18], [21], [46], [47], [49], [56], [58]-[61], [67], [93], [99], [164]-[166]
— discharge tables, [150], [158]
— distances along, [124], [125]
— gauges, [190]-[206]
— slopes, [120]
— velocities, [121]-[122]
Nitrates, [22], [69], [115]
No, Lake, [14], [34], [35], [82], [83], [84]
Nomenclature, [12]
O
Oases, [107]
Omdurman, [43]
P
Papyrus, [31], [32], [42]
Payen, Champion and Gastinel, [63]
Peake, Major, R. A., [41]
Peat, [21]
Percolation, see Infiltration.
Perennial irrigation, [59], [68], [69], [88], [93]
Phosphates, [22], [115]
Pibor river, [37]
Pics converted to metres, [98], [209], [210]
Plates, List of, [9]
Pliocene, [113]
Porphyry, [114]
Projects, [44], [58], [73], [84]
— Raising Assuân dam, [75]
— Wady Rayan Reservoir, [76]
— Lake Albert Reservoir and river training, [81]
— Flood protection for Egypt, [85]
— Complete for the Nile, [87]
— Sir William Garstin’s projects, [89]
— Conversion of basin to perennial irrigation, [93]
— Development of the Sudan, [100]
Prompt, M., [74]
R
Rahad river, [17], [21], [44], [101]
Rainfall, [17]-[21], [27], [30], [41], [43], [45], [56], [59], [103], [213]
— tables, [214]-[220]
Rameses, [48], [86]
Red water, [61], [75]
Reservoirs, [30], [73], [75], [76], [77]
Ripon Falls, [12], [27], [28], [127], [139]-[141], [143], [166]
Roda gauge, [50]
— gauges, [203]-[206]
Rohl river, [36]
Rosaires, [13], [14], [44], [128]
Rosetta branch, [14], [15], [33], [53], [60], [61], [85], [86], [87], [89], [139], [140]
— — discharge table, [151]
— — distances, [123]
— — gauges, [207]
— — velocities, [121]
Ross, Col. Justin, [77]
Rudolf, Lake, [16]
Ruenzori, Mountain, [16], [21], [29]
S
Salaama river, [13], [45]
Sandstone, Nubian, [24], [112], [114]
Sayce, Rev., Professor, [79]
Schweinfurth, Dr., [36], [39], [85]
Scott-Moncrieff, Sir Colin, [3], [74]
Scour and deposit of silt, [44], [92], [95], [99]
Semliki river, [12], [29]
Sennaar, [14], [44]
Semna Cataract, [47]
Sesostris, [66]
Settit river, [13], [45]
Silsila, [21], [74], [112]
Slopes, [14], [47], [48], [49], [53], [120], [157]
Sobat River, [12], [13], [15], [23], [35], [36], [37], [56], [61], [82], [84], [119], [129], [134], [139]-[141]
— — discharge table, [145]
— — gauges, [175], [176]
— — slopes, [120]
— — velocities, [121]
— — tributaries, [37]
Soil analysis, [45], [61], [63], [64], [100], [101]
Sparkes, Col., [40]
Speke and Grant, [11]
Strabo, [78]
Storage, see Projects
Suakin-Khartoum railway, [100]
Subject matter, [7], [8]
Subsoil water, [63], [67]
Sudan, [88], [100], [102], [103], [105], [106]
Sudd region, [13], [16], [33], [34], [35], [37], [38], [39], [41], [56], [57], [58], [82], [83]
T
Temperatures, [19], [20], [21], [214]-[220]
Tewfikieh, [41], [134], [139], [140], [141]
— discharge table, [146]
— gauge, [177]
Thebes, [67]
Tributaries of Lake Albert, [31]
— — the Albert Nile, [31], [32], [34]
— — — Atbara, [45]
— — — Blue Nile, [44]
— — — Lake Edward, [29]
— — — Gazelle river, [36]
— — — Sobat river, [36]
— — — Lake Victoria, [28]
— — — Victoria Nile, [29]
Trough of the Nile, cubic contents, [155]
Tsana Lake, [13], [15], [43], [45], [88], [103], [129]
Tumat river, [44]
U
Uganda, [29], [130]
V
Velocities, [14], [33], [45], [49], [121]
Victoria, Lake, [11], [12], [14], [17], [18], [26]
— — discharge table, [143]
— — gauges, [167]
— — tributaries, [28]
Victoria Nile, [12], [14], [15], [22], [28], [130], [139], [140], [141]
— — discharge table, [143]
— — gauges, [167]
— — distances, [127]
— — slopes, [120]
— — tributaries, [29]
— — velocities, [121]
Vœlcker, Dr., [64]
W
Wadelai, [16], [31], [90], [139]-[141]
— discharge table, [144]
— gauges, [168]
Wad Medani, [20], [44], [136], [137], [215]
— — discharge table, [147]
— — gauges, [179]-[182]
Wady Halfa, [14], [15], [48], [139]-[141]
Wadi Halfa discharge table, [151]
Wady Natrûn, [115]
Wady Rayan, [74], [76], [77], [80], [81], [85], [87], [88]
Water, Analysis of, [62], [63], [67]
Watersheds, [16]
Webb, Mr. A., [89]
Weeds, [29]
Wells, [108]
Werne, M., [38]
Western, Lt.-Col. J. H., [74], [77]
White Nile, [12], [13], [15], [16], [18], [19], [23], [32], [36], [38], [41], [43], [46], [56], [60], [61], [84], [119], [129], [134], [135], [139]-[141]
— — distances on 126
— — discharge tables, [146]
— — gauges, [177], [178]
— — slope, [120]
— — velocities, [121]
Whitehouse, Commander, [26]
Whitehouse, Mr. Cope, [74]
Winds, [19], [20], [27], [214]-[220]
Y
Yei river, [34]
Z
Zeraf river, [13], [33], [34], [36]-[40], [84], [92], [94], [129], [133]
— discharges, [36], [133]