Note 459 — Chapter IV · THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS. (continued 2)
Walter Armstrong translation
Strabo speaks of a Chaldæan settlement on the Arabian coast of the Persian Gulf; he calls it Gerrha (xvi. iii. 3). All the products of Arabia, he says, were there brought together. Thence they were transported to Chaldæa by sea, and carried up the Euphrates as far as Thapsacus.