View of the nilometer Finish:Single Two women and a little

Two women and a little girl model the latest fashions

Edmurd Burke walking towards the door of the Crown and Anchor Tavern

Scene of protestants being burnt at Smithfield

The other looks sidelong at her in a knowing way

'A Young Humanitarian'

View of the nilometer Finish:Single Two women and a littleView 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.