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Syene
[ sahy-ee-nee ]
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Strabo had travelled through the whole of Egypt, as far as Syene and Philæ, and writes with the decided tone of an eye-witness.
The distance from Syene to the sea is a month's journey for a horseman.
Here used to watch, on right and left, two upright giants of red granite from Syene.
By Ethiopian stone we must understand, as several illustrations prove, the granite of Syene.
Egypt proper terminates at Syene: the territory south of that town and each side of the new Nile is called p. 165Nubia.
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