The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia . Strabo (xvi. his Description de VArable, § 27) aiad Procopius {BeJl. Fers. 13i, 135. Strabos words are 5); Chaboras (Xa/Sw/au?) by Plinywell weighed, and just meet the i (xxx. 3), and Ptolemy (v. 18).case—Eo-rt 6^ /xei Tvapopeios evbai- j Otlier forms of the word are AburasfjLMv iKavws- xvi. i. § 23. ! (A^ovpas, Isid. Char. p. 5), and 3 Niebuhr, Voyage en Arable, pp. Abora (A/Swpa, Zosim. iii. 12).328-334; Pocock, DescrijAion of the
The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia . Strabo (xvi. his Description de VArable, § 27) aiad Procopius {BeJl. Fers. 13i, 135. Strabos words are 5); Chaboras (Xa/Sw/au?) by Plinywell weighed, and just meet the i (xxx. 3), and Ptolemy (v. 18).case—Eo-rt 6^ /xei Tvapopeios evbai- j Otlier forms of the word are AburasfjLMv iKavws- xvi. i. § 23. ! (A^ovpas, Isid. Char. p. 5), and 3 Niebuhr, Voyage en Arable, pp. Abora (A/Swpa, Zosim. iii. 12).328-334; Pocock, DescrijAion of the \ ^ pHu. 77. iV, v. 24; Uio , vol. ii. pp. 158-163; Chesney, j xxxvii. 5; Strab. xvi. 1, § 23, &)hrnfcii Expedition, vol. i. p. 107. ! ^ Chesney, Euphrates Expedition, ^ Niebulir, p. 317; Layard, Ni- vol. i. p. 48. Chap. I. EIYERS OF WESTERN ASSYRIA. 235 It collects the waters which flow southward from atleast two-thirds of the Mons Masius/ and has, be-sides, an important source, which the Arabs regard. as the true head of the spring, ^ derived apparentlyfrom a spur of the Sinjar range. This stream, which * Ainsworth, Travels in the Track [ Has d Ain. (NiebiUir, ]>. 8i(i;of the Ten Thousand, p. 79, note . | Layard, p. 308 ; Ainsworth, p. 75.) 236 • THE SECOND MONAKCHY. Chap. I. rises about lat. 36° 40/ long. 40,° flows only a littlesouth of east to its junction near Koukab with theJerujer or river of Nisibis, which comes down fromMons Masius with a course not much west of of these branches are formed by the union of anumber of streams. Neither of them is fordable forsome distance above their junction; and belaw it,they constitute a river of such magnitude as to benavigable for a considerable distance by steamers.^The course of the Khabour below Koukab is tor-tuous;^ but its general direction is Theentire length of the stream is certainly not less than200 miles. The country between the Mons Masius and theSinjar range is an undulating
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