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View and plan of Nilometer, device to measure the height of the waters of the river Nile, on Rhoda island in Cairo.

View and plan of the Nilometer (device measuring the water levels of the Nile river) on the island Rawda in Cairo.

The Nilometer, square cistern with a marble column, used to measure the levels o the Nile in Egypt.