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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. - (Quarry of Gor, Chapter 11, Sentence #5)

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. The northern and eastern seawalls of Port Kar abut on the vast marshes of the Vosk delta, the western and southern on the Tamber. And beyond the Tamber, less than an Ahn's rowing, lies Thassa, the sea. - (Quarry of Gor)