. Narrative of the Euphrates expedition : carried on by order of the British government during the years 1835, 1836, and 1837. . •. r. \ 9 3 M ?- : I KUT-EL-AMRAH. 307 was displayed at our masthead. The river flows chap. XVII between high and well-wooded banks, winding very *-—r—- much, and varying in breadth from 200 to 400 yards. We brought up about dark at El-Medlia : on the 18th Ei-Mediia. we passed two shallow places, and with them got over all present difficulties—the rest of the navigation being favourable during our ascent of 54 miles to Kut-el- Kut-ei- Amrah. In itself this place is o
. Narrative of the Euphrates expedition : carried on by order of the British government during the years 1835, 1836, and 1837. . •. r. \ 9 3 M ?- : I KUT-EL-AMRAH. 307 was displayed at our masthead. The river flows chap. XVII between high and well-wooded banks, winding very *-—r—- much, and varying in breadth from 200 to 400 yards. We brought up about dark at El-Medlia : on the 18th Ei-Mediia. we passed two shallow places, and with them got over all present difficulties—the rest of the navigation being favourable during our ascent of 54 miles to Kut-el- Kut-ei- Amrah. In itself this place is of no importance, but its position, immediately opposite to the embouchure of the Shatt-el-Hie, gives it some consequence. The latter river crosses Mesopotamia in a diagonal direction, till it falls into the Euphrates at the small town of El- Askuh or El-Arju. We quitted Kut-el-Amrah on the morning of Septem-ber 21, the British and Turkish ensigns flying, intendingto reach Tauk-Kezra before night. More than half thedistance to Bagdad had now been accomplished with verylittle difficulty, but the state of the river rende
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