For gathering in this tax a veritable army of collectors was instituted, a certain Ludovico delta Torre at their head.
It is because this process is still going on that the shore of the delta constantly encroaches on the head of the gulf[175] into which the two rivers are constantly throwing the waste of Armenia and of Kurdistan.
The boundary between sea and land, formed by the extremest mudflats of the delta of the two rivers, is but vaguely defined; and, year by year, it advances seaward.
One of the best managed plantations in the Delta of Mississippi, supposed to be very profitable, has seen such a shift that at the end of five years hardly one of the original hands was on the place.
In a very black district like the Delta of the Mississippi they form a majority of the city population.
You may see such country in the Mississippi Delta to-day, two hundred miles south of Crockett's home.
The White-fronted Goose is said to be the most abundant of all, the Brent Goose and the Bean Goose, all three visiting the Nile and Delta in the winter months.
Twenty-five years ago it was to be met with, off and on, everywhere, and in the Delta it was absolutely one of the commonest of birds.
A splendid view of the amphitheatre, the city, and of the commencement of the delta of the Rhône, is had from the western tower.
There never was any doubt that the authorities in the Delta took on themselves a grave responsibility when they remained deaf to all Gordon's requests for the co-operation of Zebehr.
The Nile has no porpoises:* those of the sea go up the Delta no farther than Biana and Metonbis towards Selamoun.
I calculated the area of these Llanos from the Caqueta to the Apure, and from the Apure to the Delta of the Orinoco, and found it to be seventeen thousand square leagues twenty to a degree.
The Neolithic weapons of the Fayyûm and Hel-wân would then be the remains of a different people, which inhabited the Delta and Middle Egypt in very early times.
The main seats of the sun-worship were at Heliopolis in the Delta and at Edfu in Upper Egypt.
In any case, at the dawn of connected Egyptian history, we find two main centres of civilization in Egypt, Heliopolis and Buto in the Delta in the North, and Edfu and Hierakonpolis in the South.
It is improbable that anything is now left of the most ancient period at that site, as the conditions in the Delta are so very different from those obtaining in Upper Egypt.
Morgan and his assistants have examined a large number of sites, ranging from the Delta to el-Kab.
We have already noticed the river of Good Signs, as being probably the northern mouth of the Delta of the Zambeze, now called Quilimane, from a fort of that name on its banks.
Cape Verd, measuring to its northern entrance, and forms a small island or delta at its mouth, having another entrance about eighteen miles farther south.
The two rivers thus enclose a large delta of land, which is the most fertile and best peopled of the Burmah provinces, and it was from this delta that Bundoola, the Burmah general, received all his supplies of men.
The one, however, who has most thoroughly explored the interior of the delta is Sr.
They extend from the southern slopes of the Coast Range of Venezuela to the base of the Parime uplands and the Rio Guaviare; from the Andes to the delta of the Orinoco.
His investigations have completely exploded the false notions so long entertained regarding the delta and its inhabitants.
On looking over these works again, we found that the miseries referred to were endured chiefly in the delta of the Orinoco, and not so much in the river above.
And during our long journey from the delta of the Orinoco they were never absent from view even for a single hour.
In the delta of the Slave, near Fort Resolution, we saw the plan of delta work.
The Nipa palm grows in abundance in the deltaof the Betis, and small colonies of half-savage people are settled on dry spots amongst these swamps engaged in collecting the juice or the leaves of this tree.
The Tagal lines ran from the delta of the Zapote River to Naic in an almost unbroken line, approximately parallel to the coast.
At Tumbao it bifurcates, and enters the Bay of Illana by two mouths forming a long narrow delta of deep and rich alluvial soil.
The rice is raised in the delta of the Agno and about that river.
The Tirurayes occupy the hills to the south of the delta of the Rio Grande, the coast being occupied by Moros.
In the gloomy forests of the Delta there are only two enemies capable of doing him any serious harm.
The sand, blown over the Delta and the cultivated land higher up the stream during the inundation, is covered or mixed with the fertile earth brought down by the river, and no serious injury is sustained from it.
These lagoons the river deposits would have filled up, and there would still have been surplus earth enough to extend the Delta far into the Mediterranean.
The present rate of advance of the delta is 262 feet a year, and there are reasons for thinking that the amount of deposit has long been approximately constant.
They are found to have raised the soil at Thebes about seven feet within the last seventeen hundred years, and in the Delta the rise has been certainly more than half as great.
The Mediterranean front of the Delta may be estimated at one hundred and fifty miles in length.
Before the Restoration scarcely one ship from the Thames had ever visited the Delta of the Ganges.
But he had visited certain cities in the Delta into which we have been unable to follow him, owing to the uncertainty that still hangs over their exact position.
Part of theDelta was overrun and devastated before the Pharaoh could make head against his foes.
With the Busiris of Memphis and the Busiris of Heliopolis he was doubtless acquainted: with the Busiris of the middle Deltawe must conclude he was not.
There had been an earlier period, when the Delta at least had been well-known to the Hellenic world.
If the Delta was like a sea when Herodotos saw it, he must have been there between the beginning of July and the end of October.
A large army was despatched to the Nile, which overthrew the forces of Rud-Amon in the Delta and pursued him as far as Thebes.
But all distinction between the Delta and the rest of Egypt was hidden from him by the waters of the inundation.
The war was transferred from the Delta to Asia itself; Canaan and Syria were conquered, and an Egyptian empire established, which extended as far as the Euphrates.
From time immemorial the coast of the Delta had been carefully guarded against the piratical attacks of the barbarians of the north.
The only explanation can be that Herodotos never saw theDelta in its normal condition when the inundation had ceased to cover the land.
When he arrived, the whole of the Delta was under water.
Protected by the marshes which surrounded it, Zoan, the modern San, lay on the eastern side of the Delta at no great distance from the frontier of Asia and the great Hyksos fortress of Avaris.
Ahead, the city of Konkrook sprawled along the delta of the Konk river and extended itself inland.
Clive, it is true, might have disregarded all native intrigue, marched on Murshidabad, and at once held the delta of the Ganges in the Company's name.
These rivers flow into the sea through numerous winding channels, forming a delta united by canals to that of the Mekong.
