Mesopotamia and Assyria: From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time; with Illustrations of Their Natural History |
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... ; for there are many districts of which as yet little or nothing is known . The labours of modern travellers are , how- ever , daily throwing light on their antiquities , natural history , and geography : And when the works of PREFACE . 7.
... ; for there are many districts of which as yet little or nothing is known . The labours of modern travellers are , how- ever , daily throwing light on their antiquities , natural history , and geography : And when the works of PREFACE . 7.
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... by recent travellers to our geographical knowledge of the interesting country which occupies the basin of the Tigris and Euphrates . May 1841 . CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF MESOPOTAMIA AND ASSYRIA 8 PREFACE .
... by recent travellers to our geographical knowledge of the interesting country which occupies the basin of the Tigris and Euphrates . May 1841 . CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF MESOPOTAMIA AND ASSYRIA 8 PREFACE .
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... travellers to the very neighbourhood of Mendali . From thence , northward to the boundary of Assyria , between the Gordyæan mountains and the Tigris , the country swarms with various classes of rob- bers , who by their ravages check ...
... travellers to the very neighbourhood of Mendali . From thence , northward to the boundary of Assyria , between the Gordyæan mountains and the Tigris , the country swarms with various classes of rob- bers , who by their ravages check ...
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... traveller who is crossing the mountains of Kurdistan is glad to draw his cloak tightly about him , to protect his person from the cold blasts that descend from the ice - covered peaks . Thus , too , the date - tree yields its luscious ...
... traveller who is crossing the mountains of Kurdistan is glad to draw his cloak tightly about him , to protect his person from the cold blasts that descend from the ice - covered peaks . Thus , too , the date - tree yields its luscious ...
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... traveller in pass- ing over the face of the country , now almost a desert , meets every where with vestiges which prove how com- pletely traversed it once was by such arteries of fructi- fication . It is remarkable , too , that all ...
... traveller in pass- ing over the face of the country , now almost a desert , meets every where with vestiges which prove how com- pletely traversed it once was by such arteries of fructi- fication . It is remarkable , too , that all ...
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according Ainsworth ancient appears Arabs Armenia army Asshur Assyria Babel Babylon Babylonian Bagdad banks Birs bitumen bricks building built called canal capital Chaldeans chief Christian common Crassus crossed Ctesias Ctesiphon Cyrus death described Diarbekir district east eastern empire enemy Euphrates feet formed former Geographical Greeks ground gypsum height Herodotus Hillah hills horse inhabitants Jezirah Kasr Khabour king Kurdistan Kurds land limestone Mardin marshes Medes mentioned Mesopotamia miles monarch Mosul mounds mountains Mujelibé Nestorian Nimrod Nineveh Ninus Nisibin observed occupied Orfa palace Parthians Pasha passed Persian plain present prince reign remains remarkable Rich Rich's ridges rising river rock Roman ruins Samarra Scripture seen Seleucia sheik Shinar side Sinjar Solymaneah species square stone Strabo stream Surenas Syria Taurus temple of Belus tent thick Tigris tion towers town tract traveller tribe village walls whole Xenophon yards Yezidees