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THE volume of the Nile is made a thousand times greater than the truth in the new “Encyclopædia”, vol. vii. p. 706, art. Egypt, by an error copied from the last edition. The same mistake occurs in Rawlinson's “Herodotus”, vol. ii. p. 7, Note GW.; in the Geographical Society's Journal, vol. xix.; in Fullarton's Gazetteer, and probably elsewhere, and some fables have been founded on it.
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MOTT, A. The “Encyclopædia Britannica”—The Nile. Nature 21, 155 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/021155a0
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