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Vincent has bestowed much pains and argument in 
elucidating the matter, and D’Anville has been Jed in- 
to gross mistakes, from i on some particular 
points of inqui But Kinneir having been encam 
tor six on the banks of the Karoon and Hafar, 
must be su from his intelligence, and 
though erroneously, been suppo- 
wee (the combined stream of 
the Euphrates and Tigris.) enters the Persian Gulf by 
issue from the Delta into the sea, at no t distance 
from each other, were derived from the l-Arab, 
the river with which they were chiefly acquainted. 
These channels, or khores as they are call , in Mr 
Cluer's map e the following order: Cossisa 
Bouny, Bamishere, Karoon, Seluge, Mohilla, Goban, 
and Detia: Bona. If it be proved that the Bamishere, 
the next in succession, as well as in itude, to the 
Cossisa Bouny, or Shat-ool-Arab, is not in the least aug- 
mented by waters of the latter, clearly none of 
the others can ; for the only means of communication 
is by the Hafar cut. Now, the Bamishere is the main 
— aa Sern oye Pity river, after its confluence 
wi Abzal.at Bundikeil, contains a greater 
body of water than either the Euphrdtes of Tiss se- 
'y. This stream, on reaching Sabla, a ruined 
village 30 miles east of Bussora, disunites; the largest 
branch called Hafar, after a course of fourteen or fifteen 
miles, tes. The greatest portion of waters 
flowing obliquely to.the east, constitute the Bamishere, 
the rest enter the Shat-ool-Arab, through an artifi- 
cut, three miles . This cut is the only com- 
munication which the -Arab has with the six 
; and,as the waters of the Karoon 
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teresting in the world, at the time of its accomplish- ‘ 
ment, opening a communication with Eur and the 
most distant regions of Asia, and, as Dr Ve ob= 
serves, the eacee and orgin of the Portuguese disco- 
veries, an primary :ause, however remote, of the’ 
“From fo anges, too Eeplialia panacea 
rom its source, Eu a course of 
about 1400 miles to its confluence with’ the © at 
Korna, which, estimating at the distance of 190 miles 
from the Persian Gulf, tle waters of the Euphrates con 
sequently flow upwards »f 1500 miles in reaching the 
gd aa gp ce a 8 Machen to hong 
re, passim, pnyis ip ; Memoire sur 
t Buprae et le Tigre pir D Anville ; Vincent's Voyage 
of Nearchus, and Arrun’s Hist. by Gronovius  (w. 7.) 
EURIPIDES, a ceebrated Grecian ic poet, was’ 
born in the first yearof the "ath Olympiad, (about 408: 
B. C.) in the island of Salamis, whither his 
peng res of the false interpretation 
erxes. In uence i ’ 
Pe equivocal orade, he was destined, by h one 
pow go Anaxagoras, 
by vari chadiones fest ren. em 
various 4 tobea e ; for, a 
reference to chrorology, it will be found, that Socrates 
was twelve or thitteen than Euripides ; 
which makes it Yery im 
a ee 
it is 6 a i inti 
subsisted a ey ag Sate —ve men; in so 
that Socrates, vho in general di 
exhibitions, sellom appeared at the unless when 
the tragedies of Euripides were to be performed. 
At an early age, Euripides imbibed a strong partiali- 
previous to the invasion of Attica _ 
