Note 138 — Chapter II
Walter Armstrong translation
M. Oppert is even inclined to think that some of them came from the peninsula of Sinai and the eastern shores of Egypt (Revue Archéologique, vol. xlii. p. 272). The formation of the Arabian hills is not yet very well known, and we are not in a position to say for certain whence these rocks may have come. It seems probable however, that they might have been obtained from certain districts of Arabia, from which they could be carried without too great an effort to within reach of the canals fed by the Euphrates, or of some port trading with the Persian Gulf.