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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.' [111] (160/905)
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CHAP. VI.]
GENERAL POPULATION.
Ill
The principal towns of Mesopotamia are Diyar Bekr, Hisn p r i nc ipai
Keifa, Jezireh, Mosul, Tekrit, Sammara, and Kut el 'amarah 'T 118 of .
i i , __ Mesopotamia.
along the Tigris ; Erzmgan, Kemakh, Egin, Kebban Maden,
Malatiyah, Rum Kal'ah, Bir, Rakkah, De'ir, Rawd, 'Anah,
Hadisah, El 'Uzz, Jibbah, Diwaniyah, Lamlum, Sheikh el
Shuyukh, and Kurnah, along the Euphrates: in addition to
Suverek, O'rfah, Haran, Seroug, Ras-el-ain, Mardin, Nisibis,
Sinjar, El Hadhr, Kerbelah, Mesjid All, Samawah, Zobe'id,
and many other villages, both in the mountains and along
the streams, between the two great rivers. Grane, or Quade,
Mohammarah, and Basrah are the ports; and the last, being
the principal, is next in importance to Baghdad, the capital,
which has been already noticed.
The inhabitants consist of Arabs, Osmanli Turks, Kurds, Religion.
Turkomans, Syrians, Jews, and Christians. Arabic is the
general language; Turkish, Kurdish, Chaldee, Syriac, and
the Syro-Chaldean dialects being the exceptions. The Sunnie
Muhammedan religion is prevalent; but in Upper Mesopo
tamia there are many Christians of the creed of Nestorius,
(some of whom have become Roman Catholics,) and Jacobite
as well as Roman Catholic Syrians. There are besides two
remarkable sects, one of which, called the Mendajaha, (dis
ciples of John,) is found scattered in small communities
in Basrah, Kurnah, Mohammarah, and, lastly. Sheikh el
Shuyukh, where there are about three hundred families.
Those of Basrah are noticed by Pietro de la Valle, who
says the Arabs call them Sabeans. 1 Their religion is evi
dently a mixture of paganism, Hebrew Muhammedan, and
Christian. They profess to regulate their lives by a book
called the Sidra, containing many moral precepts, which,
according to tradition, have been handed down from Adam,
through Seth and Enoch ; and it is understood to be in
their language, (the Chaldee,) but written in a peculiar
character. They abhor circumcision, but are very parti
cular in distinguishing between clean and unclean animals,
and likewise in keeping the sabbath with extraordinary
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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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