Travels in Chaldæa: Including a Journey from Bussorah to Bagdad, Hillah, and Babylon, Performed on Foot in 1827. With Observations on the Sited and Remains of Babel, Seleucia, and CtesiphonH. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1829 - 320 pages |
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... appear to me to be more critical , correct , and comprehensive , and more fully to accord with the earliest accounts , than those of any other modern traveller . Of the ancients , Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus are the most valuable ...
... appear to me to be more critical , correct , and comprehensive , and more fully to accord with the earliest accounts , than those of any other modern traveller . Of the ancients , Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus are the most valuable ...
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... it produces a frothy salivation at the mouth , which appears to give great pleasure to the animal . - Vide Morier's " Travels , " vol . ii . chap . vii . page 115 . BENI LAM ARABS . 11 tedious and prolonged is an 10 CAMEL'S THORN .
... it produces a frothy salivation at the mouth , which appears to give great pleasure to the animal . - Vide Morier's " Travels , " vol . ii . chap . vii . page 115 . BENI LAM ARABS . 11 tedious and prolonged is an 10 CAMEL'S THORN .
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... convulsed and fallen ; nature appears to lan- guish , and to inform the traveller how wretched is the state of the people . The river meanders most capriciously , our bearings for the last two hours having been N. E .; N. E .; E.
... convulsed and fallen ; nature appears to lan- guish , and to inform the traveller how wretched is the state of the people . The river meanders most capriciously , our bearings for the last two hours having been N. E .; N. E .; E.
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... appears to justify their assertion . They call the Tigris Hud , hence to Koorna . Having bought a couple of sheep for my people , I was witness to some curious culinary operations . The entrails were ripped open ; pieces of which , with ...
... appears to justify their assertion . They call the Tigris Hud , hence to Koorna . Having bought a couple of sheep for my people , I was witness to some curious culinary operations . The entrails were ripped open ; pieces of which , with ...
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... appears emerging from the earth , without rays , until considerably above the horizon ; and on sink- ing into the golden chambers of the west , his beams disappear long before the body of the orb is covered . The soil of this Desert ...
... appears emerging from the earth , without rays , until considerably above the horizon ; and on sink- ing into the golden chambers of the west , his beams disappear long before the body of the orb is covered . The soil of this Desert ...
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AHWAZ ancient antiquity appears Appendix Arabia Arabs Arrian Babel Babylon Babylonian Bagdad Basrah beautiful Belus Berosus Birs Nemroud bitumen boat breadth bricks brickwork bridge building built burnt called camel canal cement chap composed crossed Ctesias Ctesiphon Desert Diodorus Diodorus Siculus distance earth east eastern bank Euphrates extends face feet fifty fragments furlongs gates ground half heap height Herodotus Hillah Hussein Pasha inhabitants inscriptions journey Kasr Kesra khaun king layers mass Mesopotamia miles MODERN BUSSORAH mosque mounds mountains Mujellibah natives nearly Nimrod Nineveh Note palace Persian Persian Empire plain qu'il reeds remains remarkable Rich river road RUINS OF AHWAZ Sabean says Seleucia Seleucus Nicator Selman Semiramis Sheikh side situated spot square stone Strabo stream summit Tamarix temple of Belus thick Tigris tion tomb tower town traced traveller tribe vases vestiges village wall western
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Page 234 - And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and Satyrs shall dance there.
Page 164 - And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying, Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
Page 131 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Page 167 - Because of the wrath of the Lord it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
Page 167 - Therefore the wild beasts of the desert, with the wild beasts of the islands, shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein : and it shall be no more inhabited for ever ; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.
Page 73 - And Cush begat Nimrod : he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Wherefore it is said, even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Page 195 - By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song ; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Page 235 - It shall never be inhabited, Neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation : Neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there ; Neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there ; And their houses shall be full of doleful creatures ; And owls shall dwell there, And satyrs shall dance there. And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, And dragons in their pleasant palaces: And her time is near to come, And her days shall...
Page 32 - That which was torn of beasts, I brought not unto thee : I bare the loss of it ; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night. Thus I was ; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night, and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
Page 201 - ... harps, and, while Jerusalem was not, refused to be comforted. But how is the rest of the scene changed since then ! At that time those broken hills were palaces — those long undulating mounds, streets — this vast solitude filled with the busy subjects of the proud daughter of the East. — Now, wasted with misery, her habitations are not to be found — and for herself, the worm is spread over her...