Kitap 2
17.3
For the Nahr an- Nil [31.1,30.166] (river), Africa Nile , beginning from the Cataracts, divides Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt into two parts as it flows to the sea. Now, as far as the city Cercasorus the Nahr an- Nil [31.1,30.166] (river), Africa Nile flows in one channel, but after that it parts into three.
17.4
One of these, which is called the Pelusian mouth, flows east; the second flows west, and is called the Canobic mouth. But the direct channel of the Nahr an- Nil [31.1,30.166] (river), Africa Nile , when the river in its downward course reaches the apex of the Delta, flows thereafter clean through the middle of the Delta into the sea; in this is seen the greatest and most famous part of its waters, and it is called the Sebennytic mouth.
17.5
There are also two channels which separate themselves from the Sebennytic and so flow into the sea: by name, the Saïtic and the Mendesian.
17.6
The Bolbitine and Bucolic mouths are not natural but excavated channels.
18.1
The response of oracle of Ammon in fact bears witness to my opinion, that Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt is of such an extent as I have argued; I learned this by inquiry after my judgment was already formed about Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt .
18.2
The men of the cities of Marea and Apis, in the part of Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt bordering on Libya [17,25] (nation), Africa Libya , believing themselves to be Libyans and not Egyptians, and disliking the injunction of the religious law that forbade them to eat cows' meat, sent to Ammon saying that they had no part of or lot with Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt : for they lived (they said) outside the Delta and did not consent to the ways of its people, and they wished to be allowed to eat all foods.