'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in reference to Major Rennell's remarks: with narrative of a journey to Persepolis: now first printed, with hitherto unpublished cuneiform inscriptions copied at Persepolis: by the late Claudius James Rich, Esq., formerly the Resident of the Hon.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.' [‎290] (433/474)

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APPENDIX.
[NO. III.
" Alexander sailed first down the river Eulgeus to the
sea, and thence along the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and up the Tigris,
to his camp, where Hephaestion with the forces under his
command waited his arrival. Thence steering his course
to Opis, a city on that river, he commanded all the wears
and other impediments which he met with to be pulled up,
and the channels to be cleared. These wears were put
down by the Persians, who were unskilled in maritime
affairs, to render the navigation of that river so difficult as
to hinder any enemy's fleet from invading them that way.
However, Alexander looked upon them as the contriv
ance of cowards; and, as they were little hinderance to
him, knowing they would be of no use, he ordered them to
be entirely cleared away, and the river laid open."
Ro ore 's Translation of A rrian' s Hist, of Alexander's Expeditions
Vol. ii. book 7, chap. 7, p. 137.
No. 3.
(Referred to in page 57 of the first Memoir.)
s( Ce pays (la Babylonie) est arrose par plusieurs fleuves ;
les plus considerables sont TEuphrate et le Tigre, qui passent
pour les plus grands de I'Asie Meridionale apres ceux
de Tlnde, On remonte le Tigre jusqu'a Opis (bourgade
qui sert de marche pour les cantons environnans) et jusqu'a
la ville de Seleucie: quant a I'Euphrate, on le remonte
jusqu'd Babylone a plus de 3000 stades de la mer. Les
Perses, dans la crainte des invasions du dehors, avaient a
dessein empeche qu'on ne peut remonter ces fleuves, en em-
barrassant leur cours par des cataracts factices. Alexandre,
a son arrivee, detruisit toutes celles qu'il put faire dis-