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... a considerable seaboard along the Mediterranean, but the character of their coast gave little encouragement to navigation. The coast line of the land of Israel from Carmel southward had no bays and no ...
https://bibleatlas.org/tarshish.htm
... 3 miles from the river, and about 15 miles from the sea. The Caicus was navigable for small native craft. Two of the tributaries of the Caicus were the Selinus and the ...
https://bibleatlas.org/pergamum.htm
... has now been diverted to the fields for irrigating purposes, in ancient times the stream was navigable, and small boats from the sea might reach the city. It is uncertain how ancient ...
https://bibleatlas.org/perga.htm
... two rivers, the Cestrus and the Cataractes, are said by ancient writers to have been navigable for several miles inland, but now the greater part of their water is diverted to the ...
https://bibleatlas.org/pamphylia.htm
... found mention made of (naru) kabaru, one of these canals large enough to be navigable, to the East of Nippur, "in the land of the Chaldeans." This ...
https://bibleatlas.org/chebar.htm
... sent by boat from Niffer in Nisan of the 21st year of Artaxerxes I. Being a navigable waterway, this was probably a good trading-center. LITERATURE. See Hilprecht and Clay, Business ...
https://bibleatlas.org/tel-abib.htm
... morass is almost impenetrable by reason of bushes and papyrus reeds, which in places also render navigation of the channel difficult even with a canoe. Lake Huleh, into which the river here ...
https://bibleatlas.org/jordan_river.htm
... with the Euphrates and this union continues 100 ms. to the Persian Gulf. It is navigable 600 ms. for small vessels drawing from three to four ft. of water. On ...
https://bibleatlas.org/tigris_river.htm
... and the facility with which they could be drawn out upon the sandy beach in winter when navigation was suspended. The promontories are few and do not project far into the sea, such ...
https://bibleatlas.org/phoenicia.htm
... most difficult for anchorage, but because of the hazards of sailing by night, the ancient navigators always anchored somewhere if possible. LITERATURE. See under SAMOS. Arthur J. Kinsella SAMOTHRACIA ...
https://bibleatlas.org/samothrace.htm
... Cyrus the younger. Throughout the middle section the stream is too rapid to permit of successful navigation except by small boats going downstream, and has few and insignificant tributaries. It here has ...
https://bibleatlas.org/euphrates_river.htm
... itself, which flowed southward from the Taurus Mountains with a clear and swift stream, was navigable to light craft, and Cleopatra, when she visited Antony at Tarsus in 38 B.C. ...
https://bibleatlas.org/kue.htm
... itself, which flowed southward from the Taurus Mountains with a clear and swift stream, was navigable to light craft, and Cleopatra, when she visited Antony at Tarsus in 38 B.C. ...
https://bibleatlas.org/tarsus.htm
... across pal, as also the position of the larger towns, but, not being themselves navigable, they did not form a means of internal communication. (7 ) Nature of Soil ...
https://bibleatlas.org/aram-maacah.htm
... across pal, as also the position of the larger towns, but, not being themselves navigable, they did not form a means of internal communication. (7 ) Nature of Soil ...
https://bibleatlas.org/aram.htm
... . After receiving the Ab-e-Diz and the Belad-Rud at Kut-e-Bende-Kir, it becomes an important waterway, navigable as far as Shuster. This is identified with the Biblical Ulai (Assyrian Ulaa, classical ...
https://bibleatlas.org/elam.htm
... across pal, as also the position of the larger towns, but, not being themselves navigable, they did not form a means of internal communication. (7 ) Nature of Soil ...
https://bibleatlas.org/mesopotamia.htm
... across pal, as also the position of the larger towns, but, not being themselves navigable, they did not form a means of internal communication. (7 ) Nature of Soil ...
https://bibleatlas.org/syria.htm
