Nilometer

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Lanchester concludes that “words longer mean what they once did. It is not a process intended to deceive, but, like the Nilometer, it confines knowledge to a priesthood—the priesthood of people who can speak money.”

From Forbes • Aug. 7, 2014

This Nilometer is an ancient octagon pillar of red stone in the island of Rhoda, on the sides of which graduated scales are engraved.

From Visits To Monasteries in the Levant by Curzon, Robert

The steamer was so helplessly deserted by the water, that she would have served for a Nilometer upon which to mark the level, like the rock at Assouan.

From Ismailia by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

A great book is the Nilometer which measures intellectual life as the original Nilometer measured the life and fertility of the land of Egypt.

From Toasts and Forms of Public Address for Those Who Wish to Say the Right Thing in the Right Way by Pittenger, William

Citadel and Mosque of Mahomet Ali The old Nilometer, for measuring the depths29 of the Nile, which was erected in 716, is of interest.

From Travels in the Far East by Peck, Ellen Mary Hayes