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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ... which are much prized by the natives for riding; they are much finer made than the common donkey, and have more spirit; some few are taken to Persia, where they bring a high price, but I imagine they do not thrive out of their own country, or perhaps owing to their expensiveness, they are rarely seen out of the plain of Bagdad. On Friday night, May 15th, we left to visit the ruins of Babylon. We had hired horses, and sent them to meet us some way down the opposite banks of the river, the whole plain round the western suburb being inundated: we floated down the stream in a coracle, and at 11 o'clock found our horses in waiting; when we mounted and marched four hours to Khan Azat, crossing four streams or canals connecting spreading waters on the right and left. Leaving Khan Azat before sunrise, we passed extensive artificial mounds, which the people here call Sheshabar (perhaps Perisabor); we passed Khan el Beir, and stopped at Eshendriah, as we found it quite impossible to bear the intense heat of the sun; we stayed here till midnight, when we marched by the light of the moon, passing Khan Jedide and reaching Khan Mhoweel an hour before sunrise. The level plain between Bagdad and the ruins of Babylon presents to the eye nothing but a hard white glaring surface, intersected by lines or groups of mounds, the remains of former towns: these mounds form inexhaustible stores of bricks for building; and of them the numerous large caravanserais on these burning plains have been constructed; there is one of these at every two hours or eight miles, besides others in other directions; and still the supply fails not, and the excavations go on continually: there is no vegetation, but a little scattered gray southernwood. From Khan Mhoweel, which is...
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- PublisherTheClassics.us
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 123030696X
- ISBN 13 9781230306964
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages122
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