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The sides of buildings often seem to rise from the very waters of the canal itself. - (Quarry of Gor, Chapter 11, Sentence #3)

I recognized the scar on his face, as I had seen it before, in Brundisium, that scar on the right side of his face, low, to the right of his mouth, that small, triangular scar. Euphrosyne; I Encounter a Former Acquaintance, One I Had Known on Earth, Who Now Sees Me as I Am Within the sprawling seawalls of Port Kar there are many canals, perhaps hundreds, fed with the waters of the Tamber Gulf. In many places, a portal can be reached only by means of a vessel, commonly one of the small single-oared skiffs which ply the canals. The sides of buildings often seem to rise from the very waters of the canal itself. In this way, many of the buildings, worn and stained, often touched with lichen, dampened by the lapping waters, swelling and ebbing with the tides of the gulf, are, in effect, island fortresses. In many places, windows, several feet above the level of the canal, may serve as coigns of vantage, and ports for the discharge of missiles. The roofs are commonly flat, and equipped with stones, debris, and covered vessels of pitch which, uncovered and ignited, might be cast down toward the water, and, in places, leaders are found through which, suitably adjusted, burning oil might be directed with what, from the point of view of those below, would doubtless seem to be a most alarming precision. - (Quarry of Gor)