the excelsor and portollo zones west of stony brook, and then south of there as well. if we go one block west of the selected block, and then south of there, the funny-looking block. not that one. nothing perm. west of moderate son and northwest of alma, thank you, and further south of there, peru. >> that is a population of 590. >> i'm just trying to see if there is something that can get to 800-ish. >> maybe that other funny-looking block there north of silver. >> that would be a population of 1,013. >> and if we de-selected the block in the middle? >> 805 people. >> there you go. that would be i think the three-way move. >> just for purposes of everyone's consideration, what are you resolving fore? >> restore the border along 280. it would make for a cleaner border between eight and nine south of st. luke's, and it keeps all the percentages roughly as they are now. chairman mcdonnell: ms. tidwell? the general motion. we will get to specifics in a moment. >> i would like to say no, but i would like to consider st. luke's separately. chairman mcdonnell: mr. schreiber?

with artificial color, she analyzes the image on the stony brook computers. stone: in this blow-up, you can see the perimeter of the site right here, the two harbors -- one here and one less clear over here, which were fed by two main canals, one here and one here. the whole picture is one of a great deal of water at the site. in this view, you see one large channel here, which must have fed the site, which is located here. tracing the channel upstream, we suddenly found that it had two sources -- one coming here and the other here. the presence of the two channels explains not only how mashkan shapir could have had boat trade with both the tigris and the euphrates systems, but also the large amount of water that was available there. keach: the water flowed through a network of canals, allowing irrigation -- the lifeblood of civilization in this desert. archaeological study of the canals presented an intriguing puzzle. within several decades of their construction, many of the canals were abandoned and new ones built to take their place. why would the mesopota