TCD MS 10516 folio 91 verso
[12th October 1916] dad railway. Assuredly if this project materialized, then would Kuwait rise in greatness and the town of Basrah hasten to oblivion.
So I think it has been with Ur of the Chaldees. Just as Basrah will certainly lose its claim to the first city in Southern Mesopotamia by its ever-increasing isolation from the sea, so, I think did Ur lose its position as the first city in Southern Chaldea by its ever-widening separation from the coast and its final stranding in the desert.
That Ur was once a maritime city reminds us that the Euphrates discharged its waters at a point very different from where they now enter the sea. There could then have been no junction of the Euphrates and the Tigris. Each river must have had a separate delta at places which are