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Page 418
... tropical countries there are just the rainy and dry periods , but elsewhere there are successions of wider changes . In Egypt the annual flooding of the Nile was followed by seeding and then harvest , and three seasons were recognized ...
... tropical countries there are just the rainy and dry periods , but elsewhere there are successions of wider changes . In Egypt the annual flooding of the Nile was followed by seeding and then harvest , and three seasons were recognized ...
Page 419
... tropical years , or one whole Egyptian calendar year every 1,460 tropical years ( 4 × 365 ) , which was equivalent to 1,461 Egyptian calendar years . After this period the heliacal rising and setting of Sothis would again coincide with ...
... tropical years , or one whole Egyptian calendar year every 1,460 tropical years ( 4 × 365 ) , which was equivalent to 1,461 Egyptian calendar years . After this period the heliacal rising and setting of Sothis would again coincide with ...
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... Tropical Africa , 2 vol . ( 1983 ) . Plant and animal life is described by P.W. RICHARDS , The Tropical Rain Forest : An Ecological Study ( 1952 , reissued 1979 ) ; D.F. OWEN , Animal Ecology in Tropical Africa , 2nd ed . ( 1976 ) ; and ...
... Tropical Africa , 2 vol . ( 1983 ) . Plant and animal life is described by P.W. RICHARDS , The Tropical Rain Forest : An Ecological Study ( 1952 , reissued 1979 ) ; D.F. OWEN , Animal Ecology in Tropical Africa , 2nd ed . ( 1976 ) ; and ...
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