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Excerpt from Nile and Jordan Being the Archaeological and Historical Inter-Relations, Between Egypt and Canaan, From the Earliest Times to the Fall of Jerusalem No one possessed with any reverence for antiquity can stand on the summit of the Great Pyramid of Gizeh, and allow his eyes to wander over the vast prospect at his feet, without having his imagination powerfully stirred. The sight of the Nile threading its way from the far recesses of the mysterious South, fertilizing the desert sands, and disclosing its presence by the belt of emerald green on either bank, throws the mind back into the long pre-Christian centuries with their imperishable associations. What masterpieces of civilization, what renowned exploits, what celebrated cities, what world-famous names are linked to that river flowing at one's feet from the heart of Equatorial Africa! Then if one turns eastward, the eye ranges across the level expanse of the Delta to where the horizon melts into nothingness. But the observer knows that yonder towards the sunrising lie the land of Goshen, the Sinai Peninsula, and the Wilderness of the Wandering. Beyond these he remembers that further to the north is Canaan, which to the imagination of the toiling Hebrews was "the land flowing with milk and honey." And thus he associates the two countries, Egypt in her royal magnificence, Palestine in her sweet rural beauty. The object of this book is to trace the various links which united these two contiguous territories, from the earliest times till the fall of Jerusalem in a.d. 70. It is a long story, covering at least seven millenniums, and crowded with detail. The mere collecting of the facts, scattered over more than 1,700 volumes and journals, has entailed many years of research, in the scanty leisure available to one with constant professional duties as a minister in a city charge. It is more than likely that many important aspects of the inter-relations between Egypt and Canaan have inadvert