Close by the roadway the 6th Cataract. Distant view not all that daunting. In low and high Nile this is not the case here even now. Imagine what it must have been bringing the steamers http://www.pbase.com/galleria_rusticana/image/133730828
like the Bordein and river gunboats like the Melik
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thru here a hundred years ago.