'The Expedition for the survey of the rivers Euphrates and Tigris, carried on by order of the British government, in the years 1835, 1836, and 1837; preceded by geographical and historical notices of the regions situated between the rivers Nile and Indus. In four volumes. With fourteen maps and charts, and embellished with ninety-seven plates, besides numerous wood-cuts. Volume the first.' [‎15] (26/905)

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fectly qualified than the Author. Yet it is hoped that the two
volumes now submitted to the Public will be found to contain
a correct description of the countries lying between the Indus
and the Nile, with a brief account of the leading events con
nected with the nations by which they have been successively
occupied.
In the first, second, and third chapters of the first or descrip
tive volume, the reader will find ample details of the four prin
cipal rivers of Western Asia; the soundings Measurements of the depth of a body of water. , bearings, &c., of
two of them, the Euphrates and Tigris, laid down on charts,
which in the case of the former river extend from Sumeisat
to the sea; and, in that of the latter, from Mosul to the Persian
Gulf. The charts in question, though only on a scale of a
quarter of an inch to a mile, will, it is hoped, besufficient for
the purposes of navigation; since it cannot be supposed that
when full information is before the Public, two such noble rivers
will be allowed to continue to expend their waters without
being rendered every year more and more serviceable to man
kind.
I'ran in its largest sense, and its several provinces, are
described in the succeeding Chapters from IV. to XII. In
the last will be ^ound various circumstances which tend to
ascertain the primeval seat of the human race.
Chapters XIII. to XVI. are devoted to the geography and
the social state of Asia Minor. Besides the results of the
Author's own travels, he has availed himself of the journeys
of others, together with the narratives and descriptions of
ancient writers; and the mountain chains have been carefully
laid down on the general or Index Map,
Chapters XVII. to XXI., inclusive, treat of the climate and
productions of Syria, Phoenicia, Palestine, &c.; and in the
same way those from XXII. to XXV. describe Arabia, from