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 páginas |
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... River Al Hud , or Hid . - Curious culinary operations . -Filthy state of the Arabs , dress , & c . - The Hamrine Mountains . The Tigris . - Inland navigation . — Monotonous aspect of the country . - Mountains of Lauristan . - Course of ...
... River Al Hud , or Hid . - Curious culinary operations . -Filthy state of the Arabs , dress , & c . - The Hamrine Mountains . The Tigris . - Inland navigation . — Monotonous aspect of the country . - Mountains of Lauristan . - Course of ...
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... river .-- View of Tauk Kesra . - History of the Arabs 44—67 - CHAPTER IV . - City of Ctesiphon . - Extensive mound . - High wall . - Sup- posed canal . Ancient remains . Description of Tauk Kesra . - Search made for coins , & c . - Sack ...
... river .-- View of Tauk Kesra . - History of the Arabs 44—67 - CHAPTER IV . - City of Ctesiphon . - Extensive mound . - High wall . - Sup- posed canal . Ancient remains . Description of Tauk Kesra . - Search made for coins , & c . - Sack ...
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... river . Brazen clamps . - Urns . - Extensive mound . - Village of Jumjuma.- Predictions of Scripture . - The Birs Nemroud . - Vitrified masses of brickwork 183--210 CHAPTER X Immense hill . - Koubbé , a Mahometan building . - Exca ...
... river . Brazen clamps . - Urns . - Extensive mound . - Village of Jumjuma.- Predictions of Scripture . - The Birs Nemroud . - Vitrified masses of brickwork 183--210 CHAPTER X Immense hill . - Koubbé , a Mahometan building . - Exca ...
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... River Al Hud , or Hid.- Curious culinary opera- tions . Filthy state of the Arabs , dress , & c . - The Ham- rine Mountains . The Tigris . - Inland navigation . — Mono- tonous aspect of the country . - Mountains of Lauristan.- Course of ...
... River Al Hud , or Hid.- Curious culinary opera- tions . Filthy state of the Arabs , dress , & c . - The Ham- rine Mountains . The Tigris . - Inland navigation . — Mono- tonous aspect of the country . - Mountains of Lauristan.- Course of ...
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... river of the Arabs , in a north- erly direction , purposing to note minutely every thing worthy the investigation of the antiquary , or interesting to the general ob- server . I was accompanied by six Arabs , completely armed and ...
... river of the Arabs , in a north- erly direction , purposing to note minutely every thing worthy the investigation of the antiquary , or interesting to the general ob- server . I was accompanied by six Arabs , completely armed and ...
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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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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...