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ASIATIC KIVERS. 
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interest and curiosity. Tlie plains on the opl 
we found were inhabited by Beloches, and tue . 
by the Sheerauneesj a fiei'ce and turbuient tun ■ t 
other side of the range were tribes and places. 
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we had never heard the names ; while tliose we j 
ft-om our maps, were equally new to our info'" ‘ 
we could learn was, that beyond the hills was 
wild, strange, and new, which we might hops 
explore. 
" From Oodoo da Kote, near which we first saW 
to the ferry of Kahecree, where we crossea. 
It is a narrow 
e we crosses*- 
seventy-five miles. It is a narrow tract, conics 
tire river and the desert. It, in hunting, 
many miles to the west of the road, we got " ^ tb'S|f 
of the river, and troublesome ((uicksands, ant ^ p 
of tamarisk or of reeds ; and, if we went |t' 
right, the appearance of sand, and even 
of sand hills, admonished us of the 
SOI";, it 
desert. Many parts, however, were ""'‘''piof*. / 
great pains and method, and produced good ' 
bailey, turnips, and cotton. The fields we' j,i)w ^if 
closed, either with hedges of dry tliorn, V 
willow, or with fences, made of stiff mats oi •- pv 
... near'"j„; 
ported by stakes. Some of the houses . _ ^ 
fa-acted our attention, being raised on 
bv strong posts, twelve or fifteen feet high. iii0''v«3 
refuge in during ffi j. I' 
they were meant to take ... o ,(;yfC* 
when the country for ten or twelve coss (tvvei ; y 
o' 
ibtir miles,) from the banks was under .picirlV'b 
Beside the above maje.stic rivers, tl:of“ P jol; (jc 
serving of notice iu the Asiatic territory a'" 
The Euphrates, which has two sources 
me E-UFHRA'iES, vvm<.u iiu3 .vr.. ‘’““' V the 
about sei'enty miles trom the shores ot i' ^ 
IS 
Bhick Sea, and, taking a circuitous course ot jic 
the 
south-west, and then 
(roll-. viiDf, 
leagues, fij-st to 
east, discharges itself into the Persian S'"* j, 
hundred miles to the north-west of Bassora ‘ 
tlie Tigris, which, rising in its vicinity. P.^ 
nearly straight course through Armenia W-'J f' b 
mania, until it forms its junction. ^ 
iuicient city of Ninevah is supposed to havc^ 
HiSTKA, a stream peculiarly sacred^ 'i’ 
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