Travels in Chaldæa, Including a Journey from Bussorah to Bagdad, Hillah, and Babylon, Performed on Foot in 1827H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1829 - 333 من الصفحات |
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... Height of the walls . Decay and desolation of Babylon 118-137 CHAPTER VII . Description of Babylon by Herodotus . - Its great extent.- Principal structures . - The Castellated Palace . - Temple and tower of Belus . -Tunnel made by ...
... Height of the walls . Decay and desolation of Babylon 118-137 CHAPTER VII . Description of Babylon by Herodotus . - Its great extent.- Principal structures . - The Castellated Palace . - Temple and tower of Belus . -Tunnel made by ...
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... height , it is evident that in the month of June , when the Tigris is at its fullest height , the whole country must be overflowed , and the innumerable canals branch- ing off in every direction , ( at present dry , ) be- come perfectly ...
... height , it is evident that in the month of June , when the Tigris is at its fullest height , the whole country must be overflowed , and the innumerable canals branch- ing off in every direction , ( at present dry , ) be- come perfectly ...
الصفحة 30
... height of the most perfect pier , eight . This was the first time I had met with any remains of antiquity : none of my people had ever seen these before , having always passed the spot when the river was at the full . ASPECT OF THE ...
... height of the most perfect pier , eight . This was the first time I had met with any remains of antiquity : none of my people had ever seen these before , having always passed the spot when the river was at the full . ASPECT OF THE ...
الصفحة 32
... height of summer the nights are as cold as at Paris in the month of March . I have travelled in Arabia and in Mesopotamia , the theatre of the adventures of Jacob , both in winter and in summer , and have found the truth of what the ...
... height of summer the nights are as cold as at Paris in the month of March . I have travelled in Arabia and in Mesopotamia , the theatre of the adventures of Jacob , both in winter and in summer , and have found the truth of what the ...
الصفحة 39
... thirty - five feet in height ; and from the pillar I distinctly traced a wall built into the bank ( which extends due north ) for three hundred and seventy - two feet , of the 40 REMARKABLE RUINS . same material as the pillar ,
... thirty - five feet in height ; and from the pillar I distinctly traced a wall built into the bank ( which extends due north ) for three hundred and seventy - two feet , of the 40 REMARKABLE RUINS . same material as the pillar ,
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AHWAZ Akerkouf ancient antiquity appears Appendix Arabia Arabs Arrian Babel Babylon Babylonian BABYLONIAN WRITING Bagdad Basrah Belidian Belus Berosus Birs Nemroud bitumen boat breadth brickwork bridge building built called camel canal cement chap character composed crossed Ctesias Ctesiphon desert Diodorus Diodorus Siculus distance earth east eastern bank Euphrates extends face feet fifty fragments furlongs gates half heap height Herodotus Hillah HISTORY OF MODERN Hussein Pasha inhabitants inscriptions journey Kasr Kesra khaun king mass Mesopotamia miles MODERN BUSSORAH mosque mounds mountains Mujellibah natives 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 Tamarix temple of Belus thick Tigris tion tomb tower of Belus town traced traveller vases village wall western
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الصفحة 205 - I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of hosts.
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 164 - Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make them rest from their burdens. 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 237 - Chaldee's 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 the owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons...
الصفحة 236 - 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 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 191 - Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion, girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity...
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 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.