نزهة المشتاق في اختراق الآفاق (Book of Roger — Geography with 70 Maps)

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Mouths of the Nile 4.

...also toward the north. It splits the lands of Nubia and the lands of Egypt, and at the bottom of the land of Egypt, it divides into four sections. Three sections flow into the Levantine Sea, and one section flows into the salty lake that ends near Alexandria. Between this lake and Alexandria are six miles. It does not connect to the sea, but rather it is from the overflow of the Nile and slightly along the coast. We will detail its description in its proper place, if God Almighty wills. From below the Mountain of the Moon, between the ten rivers and the swamps, it passes toward the north until it connects with the large swamp at a distance of ten stages. The width between the two small swamps from east to west is six stages. Nile Mountains 3. In this described land are three mountains passing from the west to the east. The first mountain is next to the Mountain of the Moon, and the priests of Egypt call it Mountain of the depicted temple the Mountain of the Depicted Temple. As for the second mountain, which Golden Mountain. follows this mountain to the north, they call it the Mountain of Gold because it contains gold mines. As for the third mountain, which follows the second mountain toward the land that is in it, they call it the Land of Snakes. 3 Serpentine mountain. Snakes kill by sight The people of that land claim that there are great snakes in it that kill Scorpions of shepherd size. by sight. In this mountain that is in this described land are scorpions the size of a staff, black in color, which kill instantly. As for the lands of Kusha Nubia, which we have previously mentioned, among them is the city of Kusha Al-Ghalwa. Between it and the city of Nawaba are six days, and it is slightly away from the Nile. Its position is above the equator. Among the lands of Nubia is the Ghalwa city of Ghalwa, which is on the bank of the Nile below the city of Dongola. Between them is a journey of five days on the Nile. The people of Ghalwa travel to the lands of Egypt. Between Ghalwa and Yilaq is ten days of sailing on the Nile.