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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... EAST INDIA COMPANY'S SERVICE ; Lately in command of the Escort attached to the Political Resident in Turkish Arabia , and Member of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland . LONDON : HENRY COLBURN AND RICHARD BENTLEY ...
... EAST INDIA COMPANY'S SERVICE ; Lately in command of the Escort attached to the Political Resident in Turkish Arabia , and Member of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland . LONDON : HENRY COLBURN AND RICHARD BENTLEY ...
الصفحة viii
... East India Company's Political Resident at Bussorah , whose attainments in Oriental lite- rature are too well known to require men- tion . To him I am indebted for all the trans- lations of Arabic inscriptions given in this Volume , and ...
... East India Company's Political Resident at Bussorah , whose attainments in Oriental lite- rature are too well known to require men- tion . To him I am indebted for all the trans- lations of Arabic inscriptions given in this Volume , and ...
الصفحة 4
... East, the Euphrates and Tigris ; and though now an insignificant place, the existing extensive ruins attest its former importance.! Continuing along the banks of the Tigris, in a direction north, ten degrees west, (the * Seleucus ...
... East, the Euphrates and Tigris ; and though now an insignificant place, the existing extensive ruins attest its former importance.! Continuing along the banks of the Tigris, in a direction north, ten degrees west, (the * Seleucus ...
الصفحة 4
... East , the Euphrates and Tigris ; and though now an insignificant place , the existing extensive ruins attest its former importance . † Continuing along the banks of the Tigris , in a direction north , ten degrees west , ( the ...
... East , the Euphrates and Tigris ; and though now an insignificant place , the existing extensive ruins attest its former importance . † Continuing along the banks of the Tigris , in a direction north , ten degrees west , ( the ...
الصفحة 5
... eastern bank , which divided into two branches above the garden , and two more below it . From the description of these rivers by ancient historians and geographers , Major permission of the chief , or head of the village.
... eastern bank , which divided into two branches above the garden , and two more below it . From the description of these rivers by ancient historians and geographers , Major permission of the chief , or head of the village.
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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 character composed crossed Ctesias Ctesiphon desert Diodorus Diodorus Siculus distance earth east eastern bank edifices Euphrates exhibit 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 tile tion tomb tower town traced traveller vases vestiges village wall western