 | Herodotus - 1858 - 658 pages
...Arabian gulf, what is there to hinder it from being filled up by the stream within, at the utmost, twenty thousand years ? For my part, I think it would be filled in half the time. How then should not a gulf, even of much greater size, have been filled up in the... | |
 | 1860 - 528 pages
...Arabian gulf, what is there to hinder it from being filled up by the stream within, at the utmost, twenty thousand years ? For my part, I think it would be filled in half the time. How, then, should not a gulf, even of much greater size, have been filled up in the... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1860 - 606 pages
...Arabian gulf, what is there to hinder it from being filled up by the stream within, at the utmost, twenty thousand years? For my part, I think it would be filled in half the time. How, then, should not a gulf, even of much greater size, have been filled up in the... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1860 - 528 pages
...Arabian gulf, what is there to hinder it from being filled up by the stream within, at the utmost, twenty thousand years ? For my part, I think it would be filled in half the time. How, then, should not a gulf, even of much greater size, have been filled up in the... | |
 | Herodotus - 1866 - 560 pages
...Arabian gulf, what is there to hinder it from being filled up by the stream within, at the utmost, twenty thousand years ? For my part, I think it would be filled in half the time. How then should not a gulf, even of much greater size, have been filled up in the... | |
 | Herodotus - 1875 - 656 pages
...Arabian gulf, what is there to hinder it from being filled up by the stream within, at the utmost, twenty thousand years ? For my part, I think it would be filled in half the time. How then should not a gulf, even of much greater size, have been filled up in the... | |
 | Herodotus - 1880 - 660 pages
...Arabian gulf, what is there to hinder it from being filled up by the stream within, at the utmost, twenty thousand years ? For my part, I think it would be filled in half the tune. How then should not a gulf, even of much greater size, have been filled up in the... | |
 | American Oriental Society - 1912 - 938 pages
...overlapping to some small extent. Now, if the Nile were to turn its stream into the Arabian Gulf, what would hinder it from being filled with soil by the river...part I think it would be filled within ten thousand." The same topography is followed by Strabo (16, 3. 1) where he says, describing Arabia, "The northern... | |
 | American Oriental Society - 1913 - 464 pages
...overlapping to some small extent. Now, if the Nile were to turn its stream into the Arabian Gulf, what would hinder it from being filled with soil by the river within twenty thousand years? For my part .1 think it would be filled within ten thousand." The same topography is followed by Strabo (16, 3.... | |
 | George Kish - 1978 - 482 pages
...the Northern Sea toward Ethiopia; and the Arabian Bay, which I am describing, from the south toward Syria; and that they almost perforated their recesses...been filled up by such a great and powerful river? I therefore both give credit to those who relate these things concerning Egypt, and am myself persuaded... | |
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Nile should choose to divert his waters from their present bed into this Arabian gulf, what is there to hinder it from being filled up by the stream within, at the utmost, twenty thousand years ? For my part, I think it would be filled in half the time. 
