'The Expedition for the survey of the rivers Euphrates and Tigris, carried on by order of the British government, in the years 1835, 1836, and 1837; preceded by geographical and historical notices of the regions situated between the rivers Nile and Indus. In four volumes. With fourteen maps and charts, and embellished with ninety-seven plates, besides numerous wood-cuts. Volume the first.' [‎729] (829/905)

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lines near the point of departure. Cheeks white and forehead black. Ears
open, prominent, but not long. Whiskers long. Upper incisives, with a
longitudinal furrow. Length of the body ten inches, of the tail seven inches.
Under surface of the bones of the hinder extremities alone deprived of hair.
The Gerbillus tamaricinus of Pallus, which this species approaches, is
only six inches in length. The coat is yellowish gray above, and with the
tail has brown rings. The Mm longipes of the same author, Gerbillus meri-
dianus of Desmarest, is only a little more than four inches in length, and is
associated by Cuvier with the Dipus Indicus of General Hardwicke, in which
the tail is longer than the body, and like the meridianus resembles the dor
mouse in size, although in point of colour it approximates more than any
other species to the Gerbillm of the Euphrates.
I observed one of these animals that came by its death in a curious manner.
In running along a branch of a bramble bush, its tail had been caught by a
spine and held fast, and having fallen in this position it was unable, from the
great length of the tail, to regain its footing, and thus perished.
This species lives in the marshy woods of the forests of Amran, below Racca,
and on the Mesopotamian side of the Euphrates. The vegetation of these
woods consists of tamarin and poplar, nearly equally distributed. Jasminia,
rubus, rosa and wild mulberry less frequent, and a climbing asparagus.
DOMESTIC ANIMALS.
The camel, the horse, the ass, the mule, the common buffalo, the common
bull and cow, the bull and cow with hunch, the goat (long-haired), sheep of
two kinds, viz. the Tartarian, with an enormous tail, and the Bedawin sheep
with an ordinary tail, a little larger than that of sheep in Europe. Cats of
three kinds, viz. the common, the mixed breed, and the Persian ; the town
doff the Turcoman dog, and cross breeds including those of the fox and dog,
and the wolf and dog ; also the shepherd's dog, and the Macedonian grey
hound.