!['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.' [‎296] (363/905)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100023550132.0x000001/IOL_1947_C_142_0364.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.' [‎296] (363/905)")
'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.' [296] (363/905)
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296 THE RIVERS SAKARlYAH AND MENDEREH. j ^CHAP. XIII.
The Sakanyah Kizil-Irmak, and it spreads its affluents over a large portion
of the territory lying immediately westward of the latter
river. The western and principal arm appears to have two
sources in Lycaonia, which, after uniting near Sevri-Hisar,-
takes a N.N.E. course through the wide and flat plain 1 " in
which it meets the eastern branch. The latter is formed by
several streams, one of which, the Angora su, has two
branches, viz. the Tabanli Chai and Chibuk 'su, both of
which rise to the eastward, and unite below, or a little
westward of that place. And in a wild and rocky valley, at
some distance in the latter direction, the trunk is joined'by
the Tcher su, which comes from the Murtah Ovah-si, nearly
25 miles north of the city, 2 and flows through a similar
country.
After a tortuous course of about 20 miles W. S. W. through
a country of gypsum, the trunk formed by the Angora river
and the Tcher su, enters into defiles of granite, and then
falls into the Sakariyah, or western arm. The course of
the ancient Sahgarius is now westward till it receives the
Kutahiyah branch, or Thimbres, about 30 miles N.E. of this
mination 61 '" ' S00n afterwar(is ^ wind s northward through Bithynia
to the shores of the Black Sea, about 30 miles short of which
it has a width of 372 feet 3
The tributaries of the great Mendereh water a considerable
tract towards the south-western portion of the peninsula.
The most remarkable of these is the ancient Meander, which
has two sources in Phrygia. The eastern, or Marsyas, the
Huy'iloi,',-' Catarractes 4 of Herodotus, issues from a small lake; and
derei,. after running north-westward through the town of Dineir'
at the foot of Mount Ceheme, it is joined by the western, or
Mseander ; 5 and then flows W.N.W. till it receives the San-
fr om fh® N.E. The trunk, called by the Turks
1 Mr. W. J. Hamilton's Journey, p. 56.
8 Mr. Ainsworth's Journey from Angora : Vol. X. Part III., p. 278 of the
Koyal Geographical Journal.
Ibid., p. 219. 4 T TTTT
5 Tk J 1 ■ Lilb - C - XXV1 -
lbld -; also D^overies in Asia Minor, by the Rev. F. V. J. Arundell
Vol. I., pp. 230, 231; and Leake's Asia Minor, p. 158 and following.
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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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