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Title: The seven great monarchies of the ancient eastern world: or, The history, geography and antiquities of Chaldæa, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, and Sassanian or New Persian empire
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Rawlinson, George, 1812-1902
Subjects: Mauritius Export Development and Investment Authority History, Ancient Assyria -- History Babylonia -- History Parthia -- History Iran -- History
Publisher: New York : J. W. Lovell company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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gris flow in upon theother; but still the Euphrates never recovers itself entirely,nor even approaches in its later course to the standard of itsearlier greatness. The channel from Kurnah to El Khitr Avasfound by Colonel Chesney to have an average width of only200 yards, and a depth of about 18 or 19 feet,^^ which implies abody of water far inferior to that carried between the junctionwith the Khabour and Hit. More recently, the decline of thestream in its latter course has been found to be even greater.Neglect of the banks has allowed the river to spread itself moreand more widely over the land; and it is said that, except inthe flood time, very little of the Euphrates water reaches thesea. 8^ Nor is this an unprecedented or very unusual state ofthings. Fi-om the circumstance (probably) that it has beenformed by the deposits of streams flowing from the east as wellas from the north, the lower Mesopotamian plain slopes notonly to the south, but to the west.^^ Tlie Euphrates, which has
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