| A few days later an anxious crowd gathered to see the water mark on the nilometer begin to come up. |
| The Nilometer was how Egyptians measured the water level of the Nile River up until the construction of the Aswan High Dam. |
| When the water level in the Nilometer was below 6 meters, a famine occurred consequential to failed crop yield. |
| All these things were regulated by the indications of the nilometer. |
| This is the isle of Rodda, on the bank of which Moses was found, and where you may see the nilometer. |
| He looked uneasily at the nilometer, in which the water had sunk. |
