Histories

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), AfricaNile, and the Nahr an- Nil [31.1,30.166] (river), AfricaNile has five mouths.

There are also other rivers, not so great as the Nahr an- Nil [31.1,30.166] (river), AfricaNile, 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, EuropeAcarnania and emptying into the sea, has already made half of the Echinades Islands mainland.

Now in Arabian Peninsula [45,25] (region (general)), AsiaArabia, not far from Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt, there is a gulf extending inland from the sea called Red[*](The “sea called Red,” it will be remembered, is the sea south and east of Arabian Peninsula [45,25] (region (general)), AsiaArabia: 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: