Identifier: narrativeofeuphr00ches (find matches)
Title: Narrative of the Euphrates expedition : carried on by order of the British government during the years 1835, 1836, and 1837.
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Chesney, Francis Rawdon, 1789-1872
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Publisher: London: : Longmans, Green, and co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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corn, and rice are cultivated Products here. The tribes are numerous, and say that they are able to °- 10- J J riverain. repel any attacks of the Aniza. They were much pleased withthe English manufactures, and we could not but think, duringour sojourn among their tents, that the day might not be very 438 CAPTAIN LYNCHS MISSION TO THE ARABS. APPX. far distant, when, under the protection of England, these _^j t almost unknown people might be engaged in cultivating indigo, coffee, sugar, and silk, as the mulberry-tree is indige-nous here.Return We returned to our encampment at Bir after a circuitous route of 900 miles, having much cause to be thankful for thesuccess of our dash into savage life. Already had a reportreached Colonel Chesney that his party had fallen victimsto Arab treachery, and our return was hailed with universaljoy. It was sunset when we arrived at the port, and, strangeto say, the last notes of the English national air were thefirst to salute us on our return. to Bir.
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JKwv J>rci7c€-, eUt J)<w£Jfo$?ie-LM to tk ejM* en CHESNEYA EUPHRATEN51S. DR. HELFEES EXCURSION IN THE ARABIAN DESERT. 439 APPENDIX VI. EXTRACTS FROM A REPORT OF AN EXCURSION INTHE ARABIAN DESERT (1836). BY THE LATE JOHN WILLIAM HELFER, M.D. On board the Euphrates Steamer, March 20, 1836. The reasons which induced me to visit these parts have APPX.been—1st, to examine the scarcely-known Lake El-Malak, . V1, _ which furnishes a great part of Syria with salt; secondly, Reasons t6 examine the basaltic mountain-chain which forms, in the the middle of the plain, a separate elevated range; and thirdly, Arabian to procure specimens of ornithology, entomology, and botany for the Euphrates Expedition. Leaving the olive and fig gardens, which extend about Country an hour southwards from Aleppo, by degrees all trees cease, ^?m . 11 Aleppo to and not even a bush is to be seen ; we then traversed a gra- Sfiri. dually elevated, rocky tract of country, and descended into aplain which appea

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