Note 209 — Chapter XIV · ACCESSION OF OMAR—REINFORCEMENTS FOR IRAC—CAMPAIGN THERE UNDER ABU OBEID AND MOTHANNA. Jumâd II., A.H. XIII.—Moharram, A.H. XIV. August, A.D. 634–March, A.D. 635.
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The depth is as much as fifteen feet, and it runs at the rate of one and a half to three knots an hour. (Rich’s Travels.) The banks, however, are not so high, nor is the current so rapid, as of the Tigris.