they could not but bear in mind that a City is to be composed principally of the Habitations of men, and that strait sided and right-angled Houses are the most cheap to build and the most convenient to live in.
My research interests have brought me to Shaktoolik, a village of 250, located on the southern part of the Bering Strait, the U.S. side of the land bridge that once stretched over to Siberia.
Ships studying currents have recently identified new flows of warm water entering the Arctic through the Bering Strait on the Pacific side and the Norwegian Sea on the Atlantic side.
In 1415 Ceuta, commanding the Gibraltar Strait on the eastern side, was sacked: the Muslim rulers, in North Africa and Spain, had fallen out, and for lack of bombards could not retake the place.
The pool is a few meters removed from the Bosporus, and its design gives you the impression that if you were to hop in you could swim across the strait to the Asian side of the city.
As a result, there have been proposals to build a canal, known as Canal Istanbul, parallel to the strait, on the European side of the city.
Tension across the 100-mile strait separating the two sides of a decades-old civil war has recently ebbed considerably.
The two most senior cross-strait officials from each side met in the Chinese city of Nanjing in what is widely seen as a confidence-building exercise.
Re "New Maxim From Beijing, '2 Sides of Strait,' Is Met With a Yawn From Taiwan's President" (news article, May 13): Regarding President Chen Sui-bian's remarks, he said that "China did not make any concession on its persistence of the 'one China principle"' and that "China did not offer anything new, but only created a 'two sides of the strait, one China' problem".
Chalcis has port facilities on both sides of the strait, as well as a shipyard on the mainland side at Avlis.
