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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



Photograph by Maynard Owen Williams 



SUNSET IN THE BAY OF ALEXAXDRETTA 



The natural outlet for the products of the wonderfully fertile valleys of the Tigris and 

 the Euphrates is not the long haul over the Bagdad Railway to Smyrna and Constantinople, 

 hut the short haul, past the city of Aleppo, to some harbor on the Mediterranean coast — to 

 Alexandretta. 30 miles north of Antioch, or to Antioch's resuscitated seaport, ancient Seleucia. 



