Note 107 A similar expedient was proposed to the leaders of the ten thousand, and wisely rejected. Xenophon, Anabasis, 1. iii. [c. v. 9-11] p. 255, 256, 257. It appears from our modern travellers that rafts floating on bladders perform the trade and navigation of the Tigris.

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