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
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
Here is to be seen the Nilometer, a square well connected with the Nile, having in its centre an octagonal column on which is inscribed Arabian measures.
From Due West or Round the World in Ten Months by Ballou, Maturin Murray
It was my desire to see the Nilometer on the island, and I did see it, but not until after I had sent the boatman to buy a candle.
From A Trip Abroad by Janes, Don Carlos
