Nilometer

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How to use Nilometer in a sentence

All these things were regulated by the indications of the Nilometer.
Xerxes|Jacob Abbott
The river should rise to this height upon the Nilometer at Cairo if there is to be a "good Nile."
A history of art in ancient Egypt, Vol. I (of 2)|Georges Perrot
Not far from the spot mentioned above is the famous Nilometer that Moses looked upon many a time.
Birdseye Views of Far Lands|James T. Nichols
A few days later an anxious crowd gathered to see the water mark on the Nilometer begin to come up.
Birdseye Views of Far Lands|James T. Nichols

The old Nilometer, for measuring the depths29 of the Nile, which was erected in 716, is of interest.
Travels in the Far East|Ellen Mary Hayes Peck