Crossword-Solution: ABADIA 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

With the subsidence of the waters cataracts began to appear, and to avoid these it became necessary first of all to extend the railway to Bashtinab, later on to Abadia, and finally to the Atbara.

From Bashtinab to Abadia another desert section of fifty miles was necessary to avoid some very difficult ground by the Nile bank.

From Abadia to the Atbara the last stretch of the line runs across a broad alluvial expanse from whose surface plane-trees of mean appearance, but affording welcome shade, rise, watered by the autumn rains.

The Egyptian army was distributed into three principal garrisons--four battalions at Atbara camp, six battalions and the cavalry at Berber, three battalions at Abadia.

Kitchener himself proceeded to Abadia to accelerate by his personal activity and ingenuity the construction of the vessels on which so much depended.