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

Roda Island contains a mosque built by Kait Bey, and at its southern extremity is the Nilometer, by which the Cairenes have for over a thousand years measured the rise of the river.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various

He looked uneasily at the Nilometer, in which the water had sunk.

From Historical Miniatures by Strindberg, August

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

The little island is only five hundred yards long and sixty yards wide, and contains the Temple of Isis, Temple of Hathor, a kiosk or pavilion, two colonnades, and a small Nilometer.

From A Trip Abroad by Janes, Don Carlos