35 deg.

15'; the Adhem, which is received a little below Samarah, about lat.

34 deg.; and the Diyaleh, which now joins below Baghdad, but from which branches have sometimes entered the Tigris a very little below the mouth of the Adhem.

Of these streams the most northern, the Khabour, runs chiefly in an untraversed country--the district between Julamerik and the Tigris.

It rises a little west of Julamerik in one of the highest mountain districts of Kurdistan, and runs with a general south-westerly course to its junction with another large branch, which reaches it from the district immediately west of Amadiyeh; it then flows due west, or a little north of west, to Zakko, and, bending to the north after passing that place, flows once more in a south-westerly direction until it reaches the Tigris.