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Pheron undertook compliance with the requisition, without any idea that the finding of a virtuous woman would be a difficult task. He first tried his own wife, but her bathing produced no effect. He then tried, one after another, various ladies of his court, and afterward others of different rank and station, selecting those who were most distinguished for the excellence of their characters.
Pheron remained blind for ten years. At the end of that time it was announced to him, by some supernatural communication, that the period of his punishment had expired, and that his sight might be brought back to him by the employment of a certain designated means of restoration, which was the bathing of his eyes by a strictly virtuous woman.
The mysterious stream being viewed in this light, its wonderful powers awakened their veneration and awe, and its boundless beneficence their gratitude. Among the ancient Egyptian legends, there is one relating to a certain King Pheron which strikingly illustrates this feeling.
Second and third theories. Reasons against them. Ideas of the common people in regard to the inundation. Story of King Pheron. His punishment. Sequel of the story of King Pheron. Nilometers. Use of Nilometers. Enormous structures of Egypt. Comparative antiquity of various objects. Great age of the Pyramids. Egypt a mark for the conqueror. Its relation to Persia.
There was given, in fact, to the appearance of the river an expression of anger, and Pheron, who was of a proud and haughty character, like most of the Egyptian kings, threw his javelin into one of the wildest of the whirlpools, as a token of his defiance of its rage. He was instantly struck blind! The sequel of the story is curious, though it has no connection with the personality of the Nile.
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