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Travels
From thence we went to Aleppo, and flay’d there from the feventh of ObT^"
the thirteenth of December. 0 Cr to
On the.thirteenth we let forward for and with little variation of the R
which I have already deferib’d in my third Voyage from Paris. We arriv’d thefe^
day of February at Moajfal or Nineveh, where we flay’d ’till the fifteenth vn°!^
t?- i u A . , r . V u> “‘‘the
*ilet carry d thi;
fee thou land r
Mottjjul to Babylon.
Kilets or Boats of the Country could be got ready. Our Kiln carry’d thirtv P r
fengers, and fixty hundred of Aleppo W eight, or thirty three thou land poLl f
Farit Weight, upon which the Tigris bore us from Moufful to Babylon U0
CHAP. VIL
Continuation of the %pad ivhicb the Author kept in the fourth
Voyage into Afia, and particularly of his pajfage upon f/;e Tigris
from Nineveh to Babylon.
f" k ^ HE fifteenth of February we putofl from Mmfful, and after we tad
fwam fix hours, we came to lye near a hot Bath, about a Musket-fhot
from the Tigris. It was throng’d with Sick people that came thither
for their Recovery. We kept our felves upon the Watch all night •, but
for all we could do, the ^Arabs ftole two Coverlets from a Merchant, and a
Cloaths that was gone into the Bath.
Jbe fixteenrh, after we had row’d about five hours, we came to a huge Dam-
it is 200 Foot wide, and makes a fall in the River of about 20 Fathoms fteep. The
Arabians faid that Alexander the Great made it to turn the courfe of the River-
others will have it, that Darius caus’d it to be made to hinder the paflage of the mI
cedonians by Water. However, we were forc’d to land our ielves and our Goods,
and to lade them upon Horfes which the Arabs brought us.
The pafiing this Dam is worthy obfervation. For it is a thing of wonder to
fee the all of a hidden fall above fix/core Foot, and yet to be kept by the
Teather-Bottles dill above Water. The Water-men that guide the Boat, tvethem-
felves and their Oars fall to a Pearch bent like a Semicircle, to defend themfelves
from the force of the Water. And indeed this is the Dam that renders Tigris
navigable. ^
’ The Kilet being come to the place where we exported it, we put our Goods
abbard, and lay in the fame place upon the Bank of the River. For the Arabs, ifthey
perceive the Merchants afleep, cut the Cords of the Kilet, and fetting it a-drift,
iwim after it, and rifle away what they pleafe.
The feventeenth, after three hours rowing we met with the River Zab, that
empties into the figrig, upon C'haldeaMc. Half a League above the River Hands
n fait Caftle of Brick upon a little Hill y but no body dwelling in it, it runs to mine.
We ^ere twelve hours thaf day upon the Water, and came to lye at a place which
was full of Wood, where we made great Fires, and fhot off cur Muskets often in
rhe night to.fcare the Lions.
I he eighteenth we were upon the Water eighteen hours, and lay upon the Bank
of the River, upon AJfyria-bAe. That Evening the brought us Milk- Meats,
and frefh Butter. They Bvim from the other fide of the River with aPBoracho under
their Stomachs, and another upon their Heads, wherein they bring their Commo
dities *, for which they will have no Money, but only Tobacco, or Bisket, or
Pepper. ^ ^ . ‘ .
The nineteenth, in four hours time we met with a River call’d Ahum fou, or TV
River of Grid. It flovys from the Mountains of the Medes, and I travel’d by the
ude of it for thrceedays together, returning from Taurjs to Aleppo, and pafling the
Tigris to Mefieu The VVater of the River is of an excellent taft, and it falls into
Tigris p$tisTA(fyriaT\ie. > All along the on the fame fide, are great floreot
Bituminous Springs, and other Streams of hot Water that fmcll of Sulphur. All that
day