Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 Excerpt: ...whole year, contains a sufficient body of water for moderate-sired boats heavily laden, up to Baghdad; and, during the greater part of the year, as high as Mosul and Diyarbekr. The great and only difficulty navigators have to contend with, arises from the savage character of the people on its banks, who plunder every stranger that falls into their power, and not unfrequently murder them. The only affluent of the Euphrates worthy of notice is the Khabour, a large stream which joins it at Kirkesi&h from the north-east. The principal affluents of the Tigris are the Great Zub, the Little Zao, the Took, the Odorneh, and the Diyauih, from Kurdistan; and the MendeU, from the southwestern declivities of the mountains of Lburistan. The two great rivers are, however, connected by several canals, the principal of which is the Skat-el-Hie or Hyet which extends 160 miles from the Tigris at Kut Aamarah, 241 miles above Kornah, almost due south to the Euphrates, 90 miles above Kornah. It is dry in summer, hut in winter it is about two fathoms deep, and was recently passed by a steam-vessel. Both rivers seem to have frequently changed their course through the alluvial plains. The united stream of the Euphrates and Tigris is called the Skat-el-Arab (River of the Arabs), and flows with a somewhat winding course, in a direction nearly south-east from Kornah; entering the sea by a single channel called the Kkori-el-Bussrah, over an extensive bar, which has only a depth of three fathoms at high-water, and a bottom of soft oozy mud. It is described as being everywhere broader than the Nile, and Its waters much deeper, while the banks are more thickly covered with groves of date trees, and more on a level with the surface of the water, so as to be more easily irrigated than a...
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