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APPENDIX.

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Geographical limits of Assyria, according to Mr Gibbon, in his French Memoir on the Monarchy of the Medes.

1. Le nom de Syrie où Assyrie n'a point été borné à cette petite province sur les bords du Tigre dont Ninève est la capitale. Il s'étendoit, selon Strabon, depuis le fond de la Babylonie jusqu'au Pont Euxin. Les habitans de la Chaldée, de l'Aturie, de la Mesopotamie, et de la Syrie Propre, étoient les Syriens noirs où de la haute Syrie. Ceux du Pont et de la Cappadoce, plus avancés qu le premiers du cot du nord et de la Mer Méditerranée, s'appeloient les Syriens blancs ou de la basse Syrie. Plusieurs

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THE king of Babylon planted his Jewish captives at Tel-abib, and other placently blo places on the river Chebar, which flows into the east side of the river Euphrates, at Circessium, or Carchemish, near two hundred miles north of Babylon. Ammianus calls this river Aboras, and Ptolemy, Chaboras." Its modern name is Kabour: "It is formed bylla junction of a number of little brooks, which have their source at Ras-ul-lin thirteen furlongs south-west of Merdin. The Kabour odwendada en to ebe675 70 3911 919 9W abmwoi en bol (in Newcombel bas bliw s diw

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pursues a southerly course, until it receives the Mygdonius, when it enters the Euphrates at Kerkesia, the ancient Circessium, which, in the time of Julian, was the extreme boundary of the Roman empire."-Kinneir's Geographical Memoir of Persia, p. 245.

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THE following animated picture of an Arab camp, in the vicinity of Babylon, is given by Sir Robert Kerr Porter, in his interesting account of his Travels in Persia in 1 1818:

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