View of the nilometer Finish:Single Edmurd Burke walking towards the

Edmurd Burke walking towards the door of the Crown and Anchor Tavern

Scene of protestants being burnt at Smithfield

The other looks sidelong at her in a knowing way

The Earl of Munster was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1820

Johann Friedrich Hartknoch

View of the nilometer Finish:Single Edmurd Burke walking towards theView of the nilometer, Cairo, Egypt, 1802. Nilometers were ancient devices for measuring the annual inundation of the Nile. The annual flooding of the Nile was always vitally important to Egypt as it governed the fertility of the soil and could mean the difference between abundance and starvation. Plate 2 from Views of Egypt by Luigi Mayer.