!['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.' [‎793] (893/905)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100023550132.0x000001/IOL_1947_C_142_0895.jp2/full/!1200,1200/0/default.jpg "'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.' [‎793] (893/905)")
'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.' [793] (893/905)
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793
Suwei'k, port (in Batna, district of Oman\
G45 ' ^
Suweinit,
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
, or Bethel valley (north
ward of Jerusalem), 488
Swanets, a tribe of Mingrelia, 149
Syria between the rivers, or Aram-nahaim,
also Padan Aram, or Champagne Syria,
extended from Babylon to the Issus,
301
connects other countries geographi
cally and historically, 383
, its present shape and name, 383
, its superficies diversified, 384
, lakes and valley of the Dead Sea in,
384, 402
, mountain ridge and water-shed of,
384
, principal branches of, 384
, southern slope of, shown by the Nahr
Lietani, 398, 399
, general observations upon, 406
, now in four pashaliks, formerly in five
subdivisions, 406
, climate of, various, 533
, cold region of, 533
, climate of the coast of, 533, 534
• , soil of the highlands, plains, deserts,
&c., of, 535
, alluvium deposit in, 535
, neglected tracts in (called Barr by the
Arabs), described, 535
, desert tracts of, 536
, minerals of, 536
, camel and other domestic animals of,
536
, wild animals of, 536
• , vegetable productions of, 537
, birds of prey, and other birds of, 537
, grains cidtivated in, 537
, imports and trade of, 538
, capabilities of the country, 538
, comparative geography of, 539
, ancient kingdoms of, 540
, ancient people of, from two stocks,
Ham and Shem, 541
, language of the ancient people, branch
of the Aramaic, 541
, ancient people, atNabulus, and among
the Ansarians, 542
-, conquests and mixtures of the people
in, 544
, Arabs and other nomadic people of,
545
, connexion with Assyria, 544
, No wars, or gipsies, in south-eastern,
545
, Jews remaining in, their state and
number, 545, 546
, manners, &c., of the Mitaulis in, 547
, character and social state of, 547
, Christian sects of Armenians, Greeks,
and Jacobites in, 547
, Maronites in Syria, and their social
state, &c., 547, 548
, Druse districts and people in, 548
Syria, dwellings, religion, and social state of
the Druses in, 549, 550
, dress of the Druses in, 557
, silver horn worn by the Druse women,
557
, occupations of the Druse women, 557
, of the men of the Druses, 557
, Kurds in, dwellings, &c., of, 551
, Turkomans in, tents, social state, &c.,
of, 551, 552
• , Turks in, government, &c., of, 553
, nomadic and agricultural people of,
, administration of justice, tenures, and
inheritance in, 555
, taxes in, 556
, avanias and conscriptions in, 556
, state of the peasants in, 556
, population of, 558
, Haj caravan, from thence more nume
rous than that which goes from Africa, 688
of Damascus, founded by Kesen,
position of, 540
of Eehob, or Rohob, afterwards Gesh-
ur, position of, 541
of Tob, or Ish-tob, position of, 541
Syriac language, 83
Syrians, 111
, inhabitants of Syria between the
rivers, called, 118
, ancient, of Anti-Casius, &c., 543
, houses, dress, and occupations of
the, 543
, peaceable character of the, 544
, religious rites of the, 544
Syro-Medians (in Media Magna), 218
Szalkhat, ancient Salka, ruined town (south
eastward of Jebel Haouran), 508
Szalt, principal town of the Belka, descrip
tion of, 516
, scenery near, 516
Szananamein, Es, or the Images, 511
, Szolout Arabs (of El Ledja), 504
Szyr, ruins (south-eastward of Szalt), 517
Tab, river (between Khuzistan and Pars),
201, 202
, upper branches of, 208
Tabala, city, 311, 620, 632
Tabanlf chai, affluent (of the Angora sii),
296
Tabariyah, city, description of, 477
, lake, or Gennezareth, 400
Tabasseran, district (of Daghestan), 131,
132,133
Taberistan and Demyawend districts, taxes
of, 258
Tabiene (a division of Parthia), 225
Tabor, mount, 390, 464
Tabriz, plain of, 219
, city, capital of Azerbaijan, 220
, city, description of, 220
, trade of, 221
, temperature of, 221
Tadmor, mercantile advantages of, 526
, history of, 526
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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.
Publication Details: London : Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1850 Printed by W. Clowes and sons, Stamford Street.
Notes: Printer's name from colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. . Only two volumes of text and an atlas containing the maps were published.
Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Physical Description: xxvii, [3], 799, [1] p., [29] leaves of plates (1 folded), (the plates are numbered: 1, 3-9, 11-26, 28, 33, 37, 39, 42-43). Vol. 1, p. 705-706 and p. 707-708 are fold-out leaves.
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- '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.'
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- front, back, spine, head, edge, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1:30, 1:8, 8a, 8a, 9:34, 34a:34b, 35:48, 48a:48b, 49:92, 92a:92b, 93:114, 114a:114b, 115:116, 116a:116b, 117:138, 138a:138b, 139:189, 188:198, 198a:198b, 199:208, 208a:208b, 209:212, 212a:212b, 213:230, 230a:230b, 231:266, 266a:266b, 267:310, 310a:310b, 311:324, 324a:324b, 325:336, 336a:336b, 337:350, 350a:350b, 351:368, 368a:368b, 369:392, 392a:392b, 393:406, 406a:406b, 407:426, 426a:426b, 427:432, 432a:432b, 433:470, 470a:470b, 471:490, 490a:490b, 491:526, 526a:526b, 527:596, 596a:596b, 597:616, 616a:616b, 617:622, 622a:622b, 623:636, 636a:636b, 637:704, 704a, 705, 705, 707:802, iii-r:iii-v, back-i
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