9/42 * Note: Of modern travellers may be mentioned the adventurer who called himself Ali Bey; but above all, the intelligent, the enterprising the accurate Burckhardt .-- M.] [Footnote 3: Abulfed.Descript.Arabiae, p.1. D'Anville, l'Euphrate et le Tigre, p. It was in this place, the paradise or garden of a satrap, that Xenophon and the Greeks first passed the Euphrates, (Anabasis, l.i.c.10, p. |