Necos, then, stopped work on the canal and engaged in preparations for war; some of his ships of war were built on the northern sea, and some in the Persian Gulf [53.83,25.583] (gulf), Asia Arabian Gulf , by the +Red Sea [42,15] (sea) Red Sea coast: the winches for landing these can still be seen.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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