[Footnote 103: From the month of April, the Nile begins
imperceptibly to rise; the swell becomes strong and visible
in the moon after the summer solstice, (Plin. Hist. Nat. v.
10,) and is usually proclaimed at Cairo on St. Peter's day,
(June 29.) A register of thirty successive years marks the
greatest height of the waters between July 25 and August 18,
(Maillet, Description de l'Egypte, lettre xi. p. 67, &c.
Pocock's Description of the East, vol. i. p. 200. Shaw's
Travels, p. 383.)]