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[15] This trench extended up through the plain for a distance of twelve parasangs, reaching to the wall of Media,
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[Here also are the canals, which flow from the Tigris river; they are four in number, each a plethrum wide and exceedingly deep, and grain-carrying ships ply in them; they empty into the
Euphrates
and are a parsang apart, and there are bridges over them.] and alongside the
Euphrates
there was a narrow passage, not more than about twenty feet in width, between the river and the trench;
Anabasis. Xenophon. Carleton L. Brownson (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1921-1922.
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