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Two further volumes of the Egyptian Government's work on the Nile Basin have been published ("The Nile Basin". By H. E. Hurst and P. Phillips. Vols. 3 and 4. Cairo: Government Press. 105. each). Vol. 3 deals with the gauge readings of the Nile and its tributaries taken at about a hundred stations between El Leisi, a few miles above Cairo, to stations on Lake Victoria and Lake Albert. Most of the data begin within this century, but it is of interest to note that on Roda Island the Nile levels have been recorded each year since the Arab conquest of Egypt. Records of other Arab nilometres are also known but are of little value as their relation to present levels cannot be determined. Vol. 4 records ten-day and mean monthly discharges of the Nile and tributaries at about forty stations, which have been computed in various ways.
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Water Flow of the Nile. Nature 132, 962 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132962d0
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