Narrow Boat Channel

The afternoon ocean air allows your senses to escape the dirt and grime of the city, slowly spiraling up into the clouds that pass gently out to sea. Even the minuscule masquerade of urban attitude seems to sink into the great blue depths of waters all too welcomed by your exacerbated head. Remember that this heavenly place is always at your disposal, and make sure to keep it safe for all the future generations to come, lest they go mad without it. The oldest known channels or canals, were irrigation canals, built in Mesopotamia circa 4000 BC, in what is now modern day Iraq and Syria. The Indus Valley Civilization, in Pakistan and North India, (circa 2600 BC) had sophisticated irrigation and storage systems developed, including the reservoirs built at Girnar in 3000 BC. In Egypt, canals date back at least to the time of Pepi I Meryre (reigned 2332–2283 BC), who ordered a canal built to bypass the cataract on the Nile near Aswan. In ancient China, large canals for river transport were established as far back as the Warring States (481–221 BC), the longest one of that period being the Hong Gou (Canal of the Wild Geese), which according to the ancient historian Sima Qian connected the old states of Song, Zhang, Chen, Cai, Cao, and Wei. This sound uses the following file from Freesound: http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=115219