Both Uses of
The Tigris
in
Moby Dick
- It was this, if I remember right: Jonah was swallowed by the whale in the Mediterranean Sea, and after three days he was vomited up somewhere within three days' journey of Nineveh, a city on the Tigris, very much more than three days' journey across from the nearest point of the Mediterranean coast.†
Chpt 82-84 *
- But not to speak of the passage through the whole length of the Mediterranean, and another passage up the Persian Gulf and Red Sea, such a supposition would involve the complete circumnavigation of all Africa in three days, not to speak of the Tigris waters, near the site of Nineveh, being too shallow for any whale to swim in.†
Chpt 82-84
Definition:
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(The Tigris) the eastern of the two great rivers that surrounded Mesopotamia; beginning in modern day Turkey and flowing through Iraq until it joins the Euphrates and empties into the Persian Gulf