RIF. We have affirmed in this Dictionary, after some Learned Men, that the Egyptians call that Rif, which the Greeks call the Delta of Egypt. But M. d’Herbelot, in his Oriental Dictionary, says, that the Name Rif is given to that Part of Egypt which begins at Cairo, and stretches out towards the North. And that the Arabians give the Name of Giouf to that Part of the Country which the Greeks call the Delta, and which comprehends all that Country inclosed by the Nile, ‘till it discharges it self into the Mediterranean-Sea.
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