The voyage and shipwreck of St. Paul, with dissertations on the life and writings of St. Luke, and the ships and navigation of the ancients (1880)
Smith, James, 1782-1867, Smith, Walter Edward, ed · London : Longmans, Green · leaf 209
creekhas a shore, and that it should be a shore with a creek {vide Kuinoelad loc.) ; but al-yiaXos, although it sometimes means the shore in gene-ral, in a restricted sense means a sandy beach, in contradistinction to arocky coast. St. Luke here uses the correct hydrographical term.Arrian uses it… … THE SHIPWRECK. 141 seas {tqitov ScdaXacro-ov). It will be seen how per-fectly these features still distinguish the coast. Having observed from the ship a creek, such as wehave described, they determined if it were possibleto thrust the ship into it ; they now cut their cables,^and left the anchors…
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