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Story of an Emigrant.
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France. On the way to Cairo we passed through the valley
which in the bible is called Goshen, and which Pharaoh
gave to the brothers of Joseph to live in, and where the
brick yards are located in which the Israelites were
compelled to make brick without straw and oppressed in
different ways by their task-masters.
During the day I had occasion to see a portion of the
canal "Bahr Jussuf," or Joseph’s canal, a masterwork some
four thousand years old, which the legend ascribes to
Joseph, and which still proves what a blessing this man
conferred upon the people of Egypt, not only by warding off the
dread famine, but also by executing many great and useful
works. The canal began at Siut, on the Nile, and
meandered through the valley on the west side of the river for a.
distance of nearly two hundred and fifty miles, until its
level was so far above that of the river that its waters could be
carried westward into the province of Fajuin, and change its
formerly sterile soil into the richest and most fertile fields.
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