"سرد لإقامة في كردستان وفي موقع نينوى القديمة؛ مع مذكرات رحلة إلى بغداد عبر نهر دجلة ووصف زيارة إلى شيراز وبرسبوليس." [‎٥‎٦] (٤٥٠/٨٣)

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IRRIGATION CANALS. [oil. XIV.
November 17.—This morning I sallied forth to
"visit the country north of the ruins of Nineveh. We
first went up to Koyunjuk, along the banks of the
Khausser, which skirts the greater part of it close at
the base. At the level of the water where the rains
had washed away some of the soil from off the mound,
we saw several layers ot large stone-masonry, like a
solid foundation. This was near the village of Koy-
unjuk, where we crossed the Khausser ; it is about
a foot deep. As the passage is generally bad on the
Mousul road where it falls into the Tigris, people
are often forced after rain to come up thus far, even
when they are going to the village of Reshideh, as
there is no bridge. Here it widens, and has a hard
gravelly bottom. In the spring it is sometimes un-
fordable for a short time.
The Khausser is generally drawn oft for irrigating
the cotton-plantations in the alluvial ground of the
river, and, when not used for irrigation, its super
fluous waters run through a channel east of the
Tigris to the islands below the garden. There is a
small bridge of three arches over this channel, very
near the bridge of Mousul; but when it is mucli
overflowed, it discharges itself into the Tigris above
the bridge. The lesser channel is properly the vent
of the irrigation canals.
Leaving the Khausser we passed through the area
of the in closure to station No. 3 ; remarking on our
left, that the higher country passes through the