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On the Shores of the Great Sea (Serapis Classics), EPUB eBook

On the Shores of the Great Sea (Serapis Classics) EPUB

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It is strange to think of a very old world, when men knew nothing of the great salt sea that washed their shores, and nothing of the wonderful lands, that lay beyond.

Each day the sun rose and set as it does to-day, but they did not know the reason why: the rivers flowed through the land, but they did not know whence they came, or whither they went.

These men of old, knew one great fact. They knew that they must live in a land, where there was plenty of water.

How else could their sheep and oxen stay their thirst? how else should they and their children get food and drink? and how should the grain grow to save the land from famine?

So wherever a man settled down with his family in the old days, he chose some place near a river or spring.

Perhaps others would wander over the land till they came to the same river, and there they would settle too, until there would be quite a little colony of families all attracted to the same spot by the fact that fresh, clean water, was flowing through the land. And so it was that, long ago, the old stories tell us of a group of men, women, and children, who came and settled around a great river, called the Euphrates, away in the far East.

It was one of the four rivers that watered the garden of Eden-a very beautiful and fertile spot.

This little group of settlers-known as the Chaldeans-grew corn in their rich country and became very prosperous, while other men were wandering about the trackless land with no fixed abode or calling...

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