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'A Young Humanitarian'
Their first winter was spent at Felix Harbour on the eastern tip of Boothia Felix
Scene of protestants being burnt at Smithfield
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View of the nilometer Finish:Single 'A Young Humanitarian'View of the nilometer, Cairo, Egypt, 1802. Nilometers were ancient devices for measuring the annual inundation of the Nile. The annual flooding of the Nile was always vitally important to Egypt as it governed the fertility of the soil and could mean the difference between abundance and starvation. Plate 2 from Views of Egypt by Luigi Mayer.