[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Histoire de la dernière révolution des États du Grand Mogol](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier) › [Travels in the Mogul Empire (Constable)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable) › 24.7 # Travels in the Mogul Empire (Bernier) 24.7 Travels in the Mogul Empire (Constable) 24.7 - **Language:** English ### [24.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.24.7) I have seen it rise more than a foot, and become very turbid, nearly a month before the pretended determinate day of the increase. I have remarked, in the time of its increase, and before the opening of the irrigation channels, that after the water had swollen during some days a foot or two, it decreased little by little, and then began to increase anew; and in this manner the river augmented or lessened, just according as the rains did or did not fall near its source. The same thing is observable in our Loire; it increases or diminishes in proportion to the rains on the mountains whence that river flows. Once, on my return from Jerusalem, I ascended the Nile from Damietta to Cairo, about a month before the day on which it is said that the Goute falls; and in the morning our clothes were soaked in consequence of the dew that had fallen during the night. - [Previous: 24.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.24.6) - [Next: 24.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.24.8) - [Up: 24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.24) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.24.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.24.7) · Pramāṇa