This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ...features strange to Arabia, running water and trees. The valleys are so nearly similar that a description of one, the Euphrates, will suffice for both. The Euphrates when it appears at the edge of the desert is already a full grown river, as large as the Danube at Belgrade, and flowing at the rate of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ...features strange to Arabia, running water and trees. The valleys are so nearly similar that a description of one, the Euphrates, will suffice for both. The Euphrates when it appears at the edge of the desert is already a full grown river, as large as the Danube at Belgrade, and flowing at the rate of four and a half miles an hour. Its waters are turbid, but sweet and pure as the water of the Nile. Like the Nile too they have a certain fertilising quality in To say that trees are strange to Arabia is not perhaps quite accurate, for the acacia and tho "botun" are found there in the wild state, and the date palm of course is numerous wherever there is or has been a village. But they are suffiicently rare for the generic word sejjereh to be almost always understood of fruit trees. A tree in common parlance, unless further explained, means a palm tree or a fig, an apricot or a pomegranate tree. Ch. xxm. The Euphrates Valley. 169 irrigation, superior to that of most rivers, and leave a deposit of good mould where they have passed. In early times and till within the last five hundred years the Upper Euphrates Valley was a rich agricultural district, supporting its rural population as well as the commercial inhabitants of its numerous wealthy towns. For two centuries however no plough, it may almost be said, has turned a furrow on its shores. The fields have lain fallow, and have been pastured by the Bedouins, and the lower lands within reach of the annual inundation have become one large jungle of tamarisk. Further down, the river changes its aspect, the valley grows narrow, and groves of palm trees take the place of tamarisk beds, while the desert comes down to the very water's edge. Here villages are found, reduced no doubt from...
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