[Footnote 3: Abulfed. Descript. Arabiae, p. 1. D'Anville,
l'Euphrate et le Tigre, p. 19, 20. 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. 29, edit. Wells.)]