It would, probably, therefore be necessary, in spite of the adjacent reservoir, to supply the Fayûm during summer by a branch from the Ibrahimîyah Canal, but the reservoir could assist by providing for the irrigation of all the lands, now cultivated or capable of being reclaimed, on the left of the main south drainage line, and the part of the province watered by the Qalamshah Canal; that is, it would feed the Gharaq, Qalamshah, and Nezlah Canals, and so far assist in the summer irrigation of the province.
No doubt the proximity of a lake of 600 million square metres (280 square miles), filled to a high level with reference to the greater part of the Fayûm, would affect the climate of the province, and at any rate take some of the heat out of the south winds, which blow at intervals in March and April.
INDEX.
- Arsinoë, [25]
- Arsinoite Nome, [48], [82]
- Bahr Yûsuf, [9] et seq.
- Biahmu, ruins of, [76], [83]; supposed quay at, [85]
- Birket-el-Qurûn, [6]-9, [49], [96]; area of, [7]; evaporation, [9]
- Brugsch Pasha, [39], [93]
- Canal, the Ibrahimîyah, [10]; ruins of two ancient canals, [99]
- Crocodilopolis, [25], [72]
- Crops in the Fayûm, [17]
- Diodorus, [21], [27]
- Fayûm, the, [5] et seq.; area of the Lake Fayûm, [67]; derivation of name, [24]; fisheries in the, [18]; geological history of, [61]; situation of, [5]
- Hawârah, the pyramid of, [25]
- Hawârat-el-Maqta, [97], [102]
- Helouan, [72]
- Herodotus, [19]
- Labyrinth, the, [25], [81]
- Levels:—Lowest summer levels at Wâstah, [78]; between Dimay and Schweinfurth’s Temple, [55]
- Reduced Levels:—Bahr Yûsuf, [12]; Birket-el-Qurûn, [7]; the Fayûm, [30]; Gharaq Basin, [5]; “Hêt Rozma,” [101]; Lake Mœris (max. and min.) [79], [88]; Lahûn Bridge, [103]; Medineh, [6], [65]; of Nile deposit at Hawârah, [48], [65]; Nile deposit at Lahûn, [48]; at Wâstah in April, [66]; rock sill at Hawârah, [48]; ruins of Dimay, [51]; Temple of Schweinfurth, [52]; Wadi Raiân, [5], [42]
- Linant Pasha, theories of, [28] et seq.; difficulties of his theory, [30]; inaccuracies of his theory, [34]
- Medineh, the town of, [6], [92]
- Mœris, the Lake, [19] et seq.; Arabic tradition concerning, [22]; identical with Fayûm depression, [48]; in the time of Herodotus, [88]; decline of, [95]; inflow and outflow of, [77]; levels of Nile and lake, [79]; supposed regulators of, [73], [89]; supposed maker of, [69]; volume of water required to fill, [79]; Cope Whitehouse’s theory concerning, [5], [37], [40]; objections to his theory, [42] et seq.; Petrie’s theory, [56]-60
- Nile, the, gradual rise of water-level, [87], [92]; the river in the days of Herodotus, [87]
- Petrie, W. M. F., [77], [85], [94]
- Pliny, [22]
- Ptolemy, Cl., [41], [44]
- Reservoirs, different methods suggested, [105] Ruins at Dimay, [51], [52]
- Schweinfurth, Dr., [38], [43]; temple of, [51], [52]
- “Shad,” the town of, [92]
- Strabo, [21]
- Wadi Raiân never in direct communication with Nile, [43], [48]; position of, [5]; possible reservoir, [106]; Western’s official description of, [42]
- Water-wheels, different kinds of, [14]-16
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