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"This stretch of slack water was always a terror," went on North, "and we had fairly to pike-pole every stick through when the wind blew; but now that dam's backed the water up until there reely ain't no current at all. And this breeze has just stopped the drive dead as a smelt." "Don't opening the sluice-gates give her a draw?" inquired the newcomer.
The sight of the great volume of water pouring through them is a very fine one. The Nile begins to rise in July, and at the end of November it is necessary to begin closing the sluice-gates to hold up the water. By the end of February the reservoir is usually filled and Philæ partially submerged, so that boats can sail in and out of the colonnades and Pharaoh's Bed.
Ignorant of the perils at which Alb had hinted, the time seemed intolerably long as the water foamed in through the upper sluice-gates, filling the lock inch by inch, and lifting its load of creaking boats and tugs.
It looked like closing up sluice-gates to hinder the invasion of a high tide. But the stadium was already full of men. She had seen thousands of youths march in, and there they stood in close ranks in the arena below her. Besides these, there were now an immense number of soldiers.
They were according to President Lizet, when he was in a merry mood a couple taken in flagrant delectation, and looked dumbfounded, sheepish and foolish. The sight that met her eyes displeased the lady beyond the power of words to express, as it appeared by her discourse, of which to roughness was similar to that of the water of a big pond when the sluice-gates were opened.
Pry up the creaking sluice-gates, sending a fresh head of water down the channel along with us, lifting us over the shallows, driving us on through the rocky places, buoyant, alert, and rejoicing, till we come again to a level meadow, and the long, calm, indolent reaches of river. Look on the right there, under the bushes.
The only road across the 'marishes' on the south and south-west was commanded by Fort Nieulay then called Newlandbridge a place of great importance, originally built in an extensive morass, and furnished with sluice-gates to the sea, which enabled its holders to flood the surrounding country at will.
"Nay, nay, ghosts is ghosts, and sperrits is sperrits." "Well, then, who ever heard of a spirit going out skating with a lantern, or poling about with a punt, or shooting people, or blowing up sluice-gates, or cutting beasts' legs, or setting fire to their houses? Did you?" "I nivver did till now, Mester Dick." "It's all nonsense about spirits; isn't it, Tom?" "Of course it is," was the reply.
There were the great sluice-gates at the entrance to the canal that joined the lake to the sea there, in a separate dock, lay the splendid imperial Nile-boats which served to keep up communication between the garrison of Alexandria and the military stations on the river there, again, were the gaudy barges intended for the use of the 'comes', the prefect and other high officials and there merchant-vessels of every size lay at anchor in countless number.
There were the great sluice-gates at the entrance to the canal that joined the lake to the sea there, in a separate dock, lay the splendid imperial Nile-boats which served to keep up communication between the garrison of Alexandria and the military stations on the river there, again, were the gaudy barges intended for the use of the 'comes', the prefect and other high officials and there merchant-vessels of every size lay at anchor in countless number.
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