Tigris

1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun.

Tigris, a celebrated River in Asia; now called by the Asiaticks, Tigil: One of the most rapid Rivers in the World, from whence it has this Name. It ariseth from the Gordian Mountains, in the Greater Armenia; above the Lake of Arethusa, through which it flows towards the South: separating Mesopotamia from Assyria. In which passage it washeth Majafarequin, Manuscute, Merdin, Mosul or Nineve, and Bagdat. Beneath which at Wasset, it falls into the Euphrates; having received some Branches of that River above Bagdat into its Sreams Monsieur Thevenot, who sailed upon it, observes that it is very crooked, full of Islands and Banks of Stone. The Emperour Trajan designed a Canal to joyn the Euphrates with it; till he found the bed of the Euphrates much higher than that of the Tigris; so that his Canal might render the Euphrates unnavigable. This is the Hiddekel of Gen. 2. 14.