Note (3) — 34.—Of the tower of Babilony that is of such great height.
J. Buchan (John Buchan) Telfer translation
(3.) “Schatt.”—The Tigris is still known as the Schat (Ritter, Die Erdkunde etc., xi, 4), not only from its junction with the Euphrates, but also along the whole of its upper course (Rachid-Eddin by Quatremère, xxix), which justified Barbaro in having said that Hassanchiph was near the Set.—Bruun.