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The binding of the Nile and the new Soudan

Chapter 27: FOOTNOTES:
By Sidney Cornwallis Peel
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This work outlines the physical character of the Nile and the history and practice of regulating its floods, describing basin and perennial irrigation, barrages, reservoirs, dams, and the engineering and labour arrangements that made them possible. It examines technical problems such as the sudd, sediment and algal scourges, and evaluates past and proposed schemes for storage and control. The second half turns to administrative reconstruction in the Sudan, surveying urban rebuilding, legal reforms and efforts to suppress slavery, and considers education, commerce, taxation and the financial burden of territorial governance. The book links hydrological management to political and economic development across the Nile valley.

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BILLING AND SONS, LTD., PRINTERS, GUILDFORD

MAP OF
EGYPT and the SOUDAN
1904

London: Stanford’s Geogl. Estabt.

(Large-size)

London: Edward Arnold.

FOOTNOTES:

[1]1 metre = about 39 inches.

[2]A cubic metre of water equals, roughly, 1 ton.

[3]For the purpose of illustration, it is interesting to compare the discharge of the Thames at Teddington:

Cubic Metres per Second.
During June the average discharge for the twenty years ending 1902 was 35
The average in June, 1903, was 178
The discharge on June 21, 1903, was 387
On February 21, 1900, it was 533
And on November 18, 1894 (greatest on record), it was 1,065

I have given the discharge in cubic metres per second, the unit generally in use on the Nile. On the Thames the figures are usually given in gallons per day, which sounds much more imposing. If the number of cubic metres per second is multiplied by about 1,900,000, it gives approximately the number of gallons per day. But, after all, the discharge of the Thames in June, 1903, was not so very far below that of the Nile during the same month.

[4]The Egyptian peasant, however, refuses to accept the prosaic evidence of his eyes about these rats, and, like the stout conservative he is, prefers to believe the old tradition that they turn to mud during the flood season. Many a man will gravely assert that he has himself observed the transformation actually in progress.

[5]1 Kantar = nearly 100 lbs.

[6]Cf. p. 71.

[7]Estimated. £E1 = £1 0s. 6d.

[8]Estimated.

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