Boucolia as Goshen (in the Egyptians at the Time of the Pharoahs)

Their cattle grazed in the fields ; and, when the inundation was rising, great care was required lest, being too long, a sudden increase of the water might endanger their safety, particularly in the low lands and in the Delta. This last afforded the chief grazing country long before a part of it, "the land of Goshen," was mentioned as the best place for cattle ; as it did when that district received the later name of Bucolia ; and as it does at the present day.