[cloudmountain]

We visited Ephesus, in Turkey, to see the famous sites. One place was "Mary's house." When St. John, the youngest of the Apostles, left Israel to spread the Good News, he took Mary with him. She was fairly old by then, by their standards.
Anyway, the house was very small, simple and made of rocks/stones.

My point was that Ephesus was MILES inland but USED to be a sea port. The land between Ephesus and the Aegean Sea had filled in between THEN and now.
So, the English fill-in seems to be normal for this earth.

[Shark24]

My wife and I visited Ephesus and Mary’s house a couple of years ago. There is a very beautiful peacefulness of the place that is hard to explain. Almost takes you back 2000 years. :)