Neches
a river of eastern Texas.
It rises in Van Zandt co. and flows in a S. E. direction into Sabine Lake. It is about 350 miles in length.
NECHO (nēkō), King of Egypt, called in Scripture Pharaoh-Necho. He succeeded his father Psammetichus in 617 B. C. He planned a canal from the Nile to the Arabian Gulf, which undertaking he was forced to abandon, after losing a great number of men. This monarch invaded Assyria, and, on his march, was attacked by Josiah, King of Judah, who was slain in the battle. Necho was turn defeated by Nebuchadnezzar, and obliged to return to his own country, where he died in 601 в. c.