[155] Herod. lib. ii. sect. 19.
[156] Herod. lib. ii. sect. 4. 101. and 149.
[157] Strabo, lib. xiii. p. 945.
[158] Strabo, lib. xvii. p. 915.
[159] Plin. lib. xxxvi. cap. 7. Philost. de icon. Nili.
[160] Julian. Epist. egdicio prefecto Egypti.
[161] Procop. lib. iii. de Reb. Goth.
[162] Or Nilometer.
[163] Vid. geometrical elevation and plan of the Mikeas.
[164] We know that these lakes were dug, and in use as early as Moses’s time. Exod. chap vii. ver. 19. chap. viii. ver. 5.