€ n tjrt t e r n .
M a d a m ,
I m o s t gratefully avail myself of Your Majesty's gracious
permission to bring under Your Majesty's consideration the
geographical and historical results of the Expedition which
His Majesty, the late King William the Fourth, was pleased
to intrust to my command, and which was ordered to explore
the Euphrates and Tigris, with the countries adjacent to those
great rivers.
The Two Volumes now humbly presented to Your Majesty
contain, with a detailed account of the state of the Rivers
Euphrates and Tigris, some geographical and historical notices
of the countries which were the cradle of the human race, and
the theatre of the most important events in the Jewish, Pagan,
and early Christian histories; countries extending from the
River Nile to the eastern extremity of the empire of Alexander
the Great, where the many glorious achievements of Your
Majesty's arms have recently terminated with the brilliant
victory of Goojerat.
