On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, David Silberstein wrote: #Also, the Egyptians thought of south as being "up" because that was #the direction that the Nile flowed from. "Up = north" is purely an artifact of modern cartography. "Up" is more traditionally inland (rivers flow down!), or maybe up-current. -- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel