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Excerpt from Reservoirs in the Valley of the Nile (With a Map): Prepared for the Committee of the Society for the Preservation of the Monuments of Ancient Egypt In the Wadi Rayyan project, first proposed by Mr. Cope Whitehouse, the required reservoir would be provided by a depression in the neighbourhood of the Fayyum, 670 square kilometres in extent. It would be filled by means of a canal when the Nile is in ood, and the waters accumulated in the upper levels of the lake would be passed back into the river in the season of the latter's lowest supply. Wadi Rayyan would in short be a counterpart of Lake Moer1s, constructedby the rulers of Ancient Egypt some forty to fifty centuries ago. The accompanying map will be sufficient to enable the reader to follow here and elsewhere the brief explanations offered in these pages. It is admitted that Mr. Cope Whitehouse's brilliant and original suggestion, to use the words applied to it by Sir Benjamin Baker, offers certain great advantages. It is free from all element of danger through the sudden bursting of a dam. No part of the Egyptian or of the Nubian valley would be destroyed by being made to serve as a reservoir, nor would the great losses to archaeology, involved in the adoption of the other proposed sites, be inicted upon Egypt and upon the scientific world. But the conclusion arrived at by the Government Engineers, and by the technical commission of which Sir Benjamin Baker was the English member, was recorded against the project, and attention concentrated upon the question of a dam across the Nile. 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 origina