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     * the plenty.
       It is well known, that in Egypt there is scarcely any rain,
       the country depending for its fertility upon the overflowing
       of the Nile; and that the fertility is in proportion to the
       duration and quality of the overflow, in order to saturate
       the land and prepare for the seed.  Pliny has given a scale,
       by which the plenty or dearth may ascertained; which may be
       considered as perfectly correct.  The ordinary height of the
       inundations is 16; cubits.  When the waters are lower than
       this standard, they do not overflow the whole ground; when
       above this standard they are too long in running off.  In the
       first case, the ground is not saturated; by the second, the
       waters are detained so long on the ground that seed-time is
       lost.  The province marks both.  If it rise only 12; cubits, a
       famine is the consequence; at 13; hunger prevails; 14; produces
       general rejoicing; 15; perfect security; and 16; all the
       luxuries of life.

     * grievous.  Heb. heavy.
     # 1Sa 5:6; Isa 24:20|