from Shihor of Egypt] This Shihor, or Shichor, or Sihor, hath a notion of blacknesse in it; And is not that rill or drill of water called by forraine writers Rhinocolura; but is much rather the same with Nilus, otherwise not once named in Scripture, anciently by the Ethiopians called Siris, by the Greeks Melas, by the Latines Melo, from the blacknesse of the water, or rather of the mud and slime that it brings downe with it, or the black colour of the grounds and soils it passeth through. It is called by way of excellencie the River, Esay XXIII. 3. Ezek. XXIX. 3, 9. and the river or flood of Egypt, Amos VIII. 8. and chap. IX. 5. This River rising in the South from unknown heads, runs in one intire streame Northward to the Head Delta in Egypt, where it divideth it self into two maine Channels; and afterwards brancheth into seven several streames, Esay XI. 15. Emptying themselves into the midland Sea: And so making that lower part of Egypt to be of a triangular forme with the point upward, and the basis beneath toward the Sea [v]. One of the seven streames named Pelusian hath a stream issuing from it; which first makes the Sea or Lake of Sirbonis, of a great length, and vast depth, dividing Egypt from the Edomites, and Philistines, and so justly is named one of the Limits of the Land of Promise, Num. XXXIV. 5. Josh. XIII. 3. 1 Chron. XIII. 5. as the River Euphrates is named the other, Gen. XV 18. Deut. I. 7. and chap. XI. 24. Josh. I. 4. This River Nilus supplieth the place of Raine in Egypt, Zech. XIV. 18. by the overflowing of it; as is famous in Histories. The seven streames of old, are now become four.