Excerpt: "It was long since a hotter season had afflicted the land; and the Nile, whose rising had been watched for on the Night of Dropping-the 17th of June-with the usual festive preparations, had cheated the hopes of the Egyptians, and instead of rising had shrunk narrower and still narrower in its bed.-It was in this time of sore anxiety, on the 10th of July, A.D. 643, that a caravan from the North reached Memphis."