!['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.' [‎749] (849/905)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100023550132.0x000001/IOL_1947_C_142_0851.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.' [‎749] (849/905)")
'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.' [749] (849/905)
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Asia Minor, caves and other dwellings of
the people of, 365, 367
, the farm-house of, 366
, villages of, 368
, houses of, 369
, Mzdrs described, 369
, tents used by the Turks and Turko
mans described, 369
, karvanserais and khans, 369
, how established, 370
, baths, description of, 370
• , mosques, description of, 370
, people and language, 371
, decline of Muhammedan religion in,
371
, agriculture of, 371
, state of the people of, 371
, food of the people of, 372
, Armenians, dress, government, and
religion, 372
, Greeks, dress, occupation, and cha
racter, 373
, Kurds, dress, ornaments, and cha
racter, 373
, Yuruks, dress, ornaments, and wo
men, 374
, Turkomans, descent and character,
375
, Xebeques, figure, dress, and arms,
375
, Turks' character, 376, 377
, employment of, 377
■, modern dress of, 377
, women, condition of, 378
, sultan's authority absolute, and gra
dation of, 379
, ancient inhabitants of, 380, 381
, Turkish, and other conquests of, 381
, once divided into five districts, 365
, governments of, 380
, Khaliph 'Omar's fiscal laws, 380
, social state of the people, 380
, ancient religion of, 381
, population of, 382
A sir (district of Yemen), 614
'Askulan ruins (north of Gaza), 493
Asnowar, village (near Nisibin), 50
Asphaltum found on the Dead Sea, 403
Aspuzi, summer town of Malatiyah, 44
Assal Berouk (probably manna), 520
Assassins, or Ismaili, people, 542
, principal seat at Kal'at el Maszyad,
542
, tenets of, like those of the Shi'ites,
542
, name from Hacchis-shin 543
, population of, 558
Assayik (ancient Sanus, near the harbour
of Marmorass), 341
Asses, wild, (in Arabia), 581, 586
Assos, or Assus, ruins (gulf of Adramit),
316
Asspinz (sanjak of Child'er), 148
Assur, village (in the mountains near
San'a), 621
Assyria, mountains of, 67
Assyria, language of, 83
-—, four cities of, 119
, limits of, 120'
, towns and provinces according to
Ptolemy, 120
-, once produced gold, &c., 277
Assyrian 'Khabur, 122
Assyrians on the plains of Nineveh, 118
, or Syrians, 118
Astara town (at the southern extremity of
Tahsh), 130
Astarte, or Astroarche, and Atargatis, the
Assyrian, Phoenician, and Syrian deitv,
421
temples at Hierapolis, 541
Aster-abad, province of, 129, 224
, position and description of the capital
. of, 224
, province, the Hyrcania of Herodotus,
225
and Khoras^n (the Parthia of Pliny),
225
Astrologer, or minatzim, 89
Astrology, or Astronomy (in I'ran), 88
, derived from the Chaldeans, 89
• , influence of, 89
and practical astronomy of the Arabs,
662, 691
Atania, village and salt lake (in the desert
of Palmyra), 522
Atendja-chai (tributary of the Aras), 9
Atha town (of lower Chaldea), 94
Athur (the first territory) from Asshur,
Shem's son, 119
Atskhver (sanjak of Child'er), 148
Attaid-Sebt, village (or Abu Arisch, a district
of Yemen), 611
Attaleia, or Adala (in Lydia), 311
Attalfa su, or river Duden, ancient Catar-
ractes, 338
, plain of, 338, 339
town, probably Olbia, 339
Attane village (in the desert, of Palmyra)
580
Attarus, or Abarim, Jebel (eastward of the
Dead Sea), 519
Attlft, or Castello Pelegrino (southward of
Mount Carmel), 482
Attock, on the Indus, 74
Attruck, river, limits of Aster-abad, 224
Atvin, town (on the river Jorak), 12
Aujan, mount (in Jebel Shammar), 628
Aulan Tagh and colossal lions (northward of
Seruj), 114
Aur (the second) or Orchoe, in Lower Chal
dea, 94
Auranitis, Roman (now Belad Haouran),
510
Aval or Bahrein Island, 646
, extent, &c. of, 646
-, towns and harbour of, 647
, the Tyrus of the ancients, 647
, pearl-fishery of, 647
Avanias, or fines levied by the Turks, 380
Avars (tribe of Le'zgistan), 158
Avdimo, cape, in Baffa district (Cyprus), 458
VOL. I.
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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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