Excerpt from The Restoration of the Ancient Irrigation Works on the Tigris: Or the Re-Creation of Chaldea
For the information about the Tigris and its canals contained in this address I am indebted to the fascinating "Memoirs of Commander Felix Jones, I. N."; Memoirs connected with Bagdad, Nahrw&n Canal, Frontier of Turkey and Persia, Median Wall of Xenophon, Discovery of the Ancient Opis, and Topoography of Nineveh, being selections from the "Records of the Bombay Government, No. XLIII. - New Series." - Bombay. - Printed for Government at the Bombay Education Society's press, 1857. These memoirs were placed in my hands by Mr. Spring Rice, the British Commissioner of the Public Debt at Cairo, to whom I am also indebted for much information connected with these regions.
Appendix A gives meteorological information about Bagdad, kindly supplied me by Sir John Eliot, K. C. I. E.. the Director General of the Meteorological Department of India.
Appendix B is a reprint of my address on "Egypt Fifty Years Hence," delivered before the Khedivial Geographical Society at Cairo, 1902.
To Captain Lyons, R.E., Director General of the Survey Department of Egypt, I am indebted for the excellent reproduction of the maps and drawings. For all that is artistic and clear in the drawings I am in debted to Mr. Letchford. To Chelu Bey of the National Printing Press are due my best thanks for his usual loyal co-operation.
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