Canal

Canals, or navigations, are human-made channels, or artificial waterways, for water conveyance, or to service water transport vehicles. It can be thought as an artificial version of a river.

Quotes

• Who will dig it?
  Who will dig it?
  Who will dig the canal?
  Who will dig the Kec-kug canal?
  Who will dig the canal?
  Who will dig the Pabi-luh canal?
  Who will dig the canal?
  Wealthy Ur-Namma will dig it.
  The trustworthy, prosperous youth will dig it.
  • Variant from Ur: Who will dig the canal?
    Who will dig the Jisala-jara canal?
    Who will dig the canal?
    Wealthy Ur-Namma will dig it.
    Who will dig the canal?
    Prosperous Culgi will dig it.
    Who will dig the canal?
  • Ur-Nammu, Ur-Namma the canal-digger (late 3rd millennium BCE to early 2nd millennium BCE), at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature.

• ln my city I dug a canal of abundance and named it the Kec-kug canal;
  in Urim, I dug a canal of abundance and named it the Kec-kug canal.
  I named it the Pabi-luh canal, a lasting name worthy to be praised.
  The watercourse of my city is full of fish, and the air above it is full of birds.
  The watercourse of Urim is full of fish, and the air above it is full of birds.
  In my city honey-plants are planted, and the carp grow fat.
  In Urim honey-plants are planted, and the carp grow fat.
  The gizi reed of my city is so sweet that the cows eat them.
  The gizi reed of Urim is so sweet that the cows eat them.
  • Variant from Ur: I named it the Kec-kug canal. I named it the Pabi-luh canal, a lasting name worthy to be praised. The watercourse of my city is full of fish, and the air above it is full of birds. The city of the Kec-kug canal is full of fish, and the air above it is full of birds. The watercourse of the Pabi-luh canal is full of fish, and the air above it is full of birds. Its abundance brings fish and birds for me to the E-kic-nu-jal. Its banks are lush with licorice, a honey-sweet plant to eat. Its arable tracts grow fine grain sprouting abundantly like a forest.
  • Ur-Nammu, Ur-Namma the canal-digger (late 3rd millennium BCE to early 2nd millennium BCE), at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature.

• May the watercourse bring them (the fish) into my canal, may they be carried in baskets to him.
  May the watercourse bring them into Urim, into my canal, may they be carried in baskets to him.
  • Ur-Nammu, Ur-Namma the canal-digger (late 3rd millennium BCE to early 2nd millennium BCE), at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature.

External links

• "Canal" . 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
• "Canal" . New International Encyclopedia. 1905.
• British Waterways' leisure website – Britain's official guide to canals, rivers and lakes
• Leeds Liverpool Canal Photographic Guide
• Information and Boater's Guide to the New York State Canal System
• "Canals and Navigable Rivers" by James S. Aber, Emporia State University
• National Canal Museum (USA)
• London Canal Museum (UK)
• Canals in Amsterdam
• Canal du Midi
• Canal des Deux Mers
• Canal flow measurement using a sensor.

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