'Narrative of a journey to the site of Babylon in 1811, now first published: memoir on the ruins; with engravings from the original sketches by the author: remarks on the topography of ancient Babylon, by Major Rennell; in reference to the memoir: second memoir on the ruins; in reference to Major Rennell's remarks: with narrative of a journey to Persepolis: now first printed, with hitherto unpublished cuneiform inscriptions copied at Persepolis: by the late Claudius James Rich, Esq., formerly the Resident of the Hon. East India Company at Bagdad. Edited by his widow.' [‎286] (429/474)

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from Phoenicia. Those which arrived from Phoenicia were
two quinqueremes, three quadriremes, twelve triremes,
and thirty galleys of thirty oars apiece. These were taken
to pieces in Phoenicia, and thence conveyed overland to
Thapsacus^ upon the river Euphrates, where, being again
joined, they were carried down the river to Babylon. The
same author also tells us that Alexander had ordered
cypress-trees to be cut in that province for building several
other ships, they growing there in great plenty :* but foras
much as other naval stores were wanting, which these parts
afforded not, he was supplied with them by the purple-
fishers, and other sea-faring men, belonging to Phoenicia
and the coast thereabouts. He then dug a deep and ca
pacious basin for a haven at Babylon, capable of containing
a thousand sail of long galleys, and built houses for all
manner of naval stores adjoining thereto."
A rrian's Hist, of Alexander's Expedition, ( R ooke's Trans.')
Vol. ii. Book 7, chap. 19, p. 164.
"In the mean time, while they were busied in prepar
ing triremes and digging the basin at Babylon, Alexander
sailed down the Euphrates to the canal called Pallacopas,
which is distant from Babylon about eight hundred fur
longs.
" Now Pallacopas is no river arising from fountains, but
a canal drawn from the Euphrates. For that river, hav
ing its rise among the mountains of Armenia, during the
whole winter season is easily confined in its own channel,
its waters being then low because the rains turn to snow;
but in the spring, and especially about the summer sol
stice, the snows melt, and it swells to a prodigious height,
and, overflowing all its banks, waters the Assyrian fields on
* None are found there in the present day.—E d.