Note 054 The two great rivers unite at Apamea, or Corna (one hundred miles from the Persian Gulf), into the broad stream of the Pasitigris, or Shat-ul-Arab. The Euphrates formerly reached the sea by a separate channel, which was obstructed and diverted by the citizens of Orchoe, about twenty miles to the south-east of modern Basra (D'Anville, in the Memoires de l'Acad. des Inscriptions, tom. xxx.p. 170-191).

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The History Of The Decline and Fall Of The Roman Empire— Chapter 24