| Herodotus - Greece - 1812 - 468 pages
...The water enters it from the Nile, a little above the city Bubastis : it terminated in the Erythrean Sea, not far from Patumos, an Arabian town. They began...opens to the south, is discharged into the Arabian gulph. From the northern to the southern, or, as it is generally called, the Erythrean Sea, the shortest... | |
| Herodotus - 1821 - 478 pages
...The water enters it from the Nile, a little above the city Bubastis : it terminated in the Erythrean Sea, not far from Patumos, an Arabian town. They began...opens to the south, is discharged into the Arabian gulph. From the northern to the southern, or, as it is generally called, the Erythrean Sea, the shortest... | |
| Herodotus - 1830 - 472 pages
...triremes abreast. The water enters it from the Nile, a little above the city Bubastis: it terminated in the Red Sea, not far from Patumos, an Arabian town....and contains quarries of stone. Commencing at the toot of this, it extends from west to east, through a considerable tract of country, and where a mountain... | |
| James Rennell - Geography, Ancient - 1830 - 514 pages
...triremes abreast. The water enters it from the Nile, a little above the city Bubastis : it terminated in the Red sea, not far from Patumos, an Arabian town....this canal in that part of Egypt, which is nearest to Arabia. Contiguous to it is a mountain which stretches towards Memphis, and contains quarries of... | |
| Herodotus - History, Ancient - 1830 - 346 pages
...triremes ahreast. The water enters it from the Nile, a little above the city Bubastis : it terminated in the Red Sea, not far from Patumos, an Arabian town. They began to sink this canal in that part of Ejrypt which is nearest Arabia. Contiguous to it is a mountain which stretches towards Memphis, and... | |
| James Rennell - Geography, Ancient - 1830 - 500 pages
...understood, when he describes the course of the canal, in respect of the hilly tract. " They began (says he) to sink this canal in that part of Egypt which is nearest to Arabia. Contiguous to it is a mountain, that stretches towards Memphis, and contains quarries of... | |
| Herodotus, William Beloe - Greece - 1831 - 524 pages
...abreast. The water enters it from the Nile, a little above the city Bubastis: it terminated in the Bed Sea, not far from Patumos, an Arabian town. They began...mountain opens to the south, is discharged into the Ara. bian gulf. From the northern to the southern, or, as it is generally called, the Bed Sea, the... | |
| William Laxton - Architecture - 1841 - 534 pages
...from the Nile, a little above the city Bubastis ; it terminated in the Erythrean Sea, not far fr»m Patumos, an Arabian town. They began to "sink this...opens to the south is discharged into the Arabian gulph. From the northern to the southern, or as it is generally called, the Erythrean Sea, the shortest... | |
| 1838 - 588 pages
...triremes abreast. The water enters it from the Nile, a little above the city pf Bubastis ; it terminated in the Red Sea, not far from Patumos, an Arabian town. They began to sink the canal in that part of Egypt which is nearest to Arabia. Contiguous to it is a mountain which stretches... | |
| Herodotus - Greece - 1840 - 522 pages
...from the Nile, a little above the city Bubastis : it terminated in the Red Sea, not far from Putumos, an Arabian town. They began to sink this canal in...Commencing at the foot of this, it extends from west to cast, through a considerable tract of country, and where a mountain opens to the south, is discharged... | |
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