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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 2791914, member: 82322&quot;]A few facts about Arados.</p><p><br /></p><p>Arados is now called Arwad and home to 3000 people. It is a tiny island, apparently just a rock 740m long by 400m wide; 0.2 square kilometers. New York’s Central Park is 3.4 square kilometers – 17 times larger!</p><p><br /></p><p>Although the inhabitants collected rainwater, Arados depended upon her possessions on the mainland for water and food. When the mainland water supply was cut off by an enemy a vessel was moored in the channel midway between the island and the continent. A leather hose would be lowered to the sea floor, where it would meet a natural freshwater spring.&nbsp; (George Rawlinson, History of Phoenicia (1889), p. 42) cites ancient authors Strabo and Lucretius for the ancient practice and Ernest Renan for its continuation into the 19th century.<font size="2">)</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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