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Of all the countries on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea,
Egypt seems to have been the first in which either agriculture or
manufactures were cultivated and improved to any considerable
degree. Upper Egypt extends itself nowhere above a few miles from
the Nile, and in Lower Egypt that great river breaks itself into
many different canals, which, with the assistance of a little
art, seem to have afforded a communication by water-carriage, not
only between all the great towns, but between all the
considerable villages, and even to many farmhouses in the
country; nearly in the same manner as the Rhine and the Maas do
in Holland at present. The extent and easiness of this inland
navigation was probably one of the principal causes of the early
improvement of Egypt.