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 من الصفحات |
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... Town of Hillah.— Its situation , filthy state , & c . - Mahmoud Beg , the present governor . Gardens . - Rapidity of the Euphrates . - Re- marks on ancient Babylon . - The city built by Semiramis . -Extent of the walls . - Erection of a ...
... Town of Hillah.— Its situation , filthy state , & c . - Mahmoud Beg , the present governor . Gardens . - Rapidity of the Euphrates . - Re- marks on ancient Babylon . - The city built by Semiramis . -Extent of the walls . - Erection of a ...
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... town . * It stands on the most southern extremity of Mesopotamia , at the conflux of two of the finest rivers in the East , the Euphrates and Tigris ; and though now an insignificant place , the existing extensive ruins attest its ...
... town . * It stands on the most southern extremity of Mesopotamia , at the conflux of two of the finest rivers in the East , the Euphrates and Tigris ; and though now an insignificant place , the existing extensive ruins attest its ...
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... towns and cities . Dr. Shaw , in his Travels in Barbary , says : " The Arabs are naturally thievish and treacherous ; and it sometimes happens that those very persons are overtaken and pillaged in the morn- ing , who were entertained ...
... towns and cities . Dr. Shaw , in his Travels in Barbary , says : " The Arabs are naturally thievish and treacherous ; and it sometimes happens that those very persons are overtaken and pillaged in the morn- ing , who were entertained ...
الصفحة 19
... town there is a great deposition of merchandizes , by reason of its commo- dious situation , which are brought hither by sea as well as by land from several parts , * See Appendix , E. chiefly from Natolia , Syria , Armenia , Constan ...
... town there is a great deposition of merchandizes , by reason of its commo- dious situation , which are brought hither by sea as well as by land from several parts , * See Appendix , E. chiefly from Natolia , Syria , Armenia , Constan ...
الصفحة 20
... town belonging to the Grand Turk , situated on the frontiers , the farthest that he hath south - eastwards , within ... towns and forts on their confines , which might easily be stopped up by them ; yet , notwithstanding all this , they ...
... town belonging to the Grand Turk , situated on the frontiers , the farthest that he hath south - eastwards , within ... towns and forts on their confines , which might easily be stopped up by them ; yet , notwithstanding all this , they ...
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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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الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...