Kitap 2
10.2
For of the rivers that brought down the stuff to make these lands, there is none worthy to be compared for greatness with even one of the mouths of the Nahr an- Nil [31.1,30.166] (river), Africa Nile , and the Nahr an- Nil [31.1,30.166] (river), Africa Nile has five mouths.
10.3
There are also other rivers, not so great as the Nahr an- Nil [31.1,30.166] (river), Africa Nile , that have had great effects; I could rehearse their names, but principal among them is the Achelous, which, flowing through Akarnania (region (general)), Aitolia and Akarnania, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Acarnania and emptying into the sea, has already made half of the Echinades Islands mainland.
11.1
Now in Arabian Peninsula [45,25] (region (general)), Asia Arabia , not far from Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt , there is a gulf extending inland from the sea called RedThe “sea called Red,” it will be remembered, is the sea south and east of Arabian Peninsula [45,25] (region (general)), Asia Arabia : the gulf entering in from it is our Red Sea . Suppose the Delta to have been once a gulf too, then there would have been two gulfs, both running up into Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt , their heads not far from each other. , whose length and width are such as I shall show:
11.2
in length, from its inner end out to the wide sea, it is a forty days' voyage for a ship rowed by oars; and in breadth, it is half a day's voyage at the widest. Every day the tides ebb and flow in it.
