. Nippur; or, Explorations and adventures on the Euphrates : the narrative of the University of Pennsylvania expedition to Babylonia in the years 1888-1890 . is day. Chesney sought for them withoutsuccess, but succeeded in obtaining the skin of one froina native; and Layard says that he heard one bray in theSinjar hills on the other edge of the desert. Evidentlythey are now reduced to a dodo remnant. The same istrue of the lions, once so common over all western elephant and ostrich, formerly inhabitants of theseregions, have vanished altogether. From Abu-Kemal we could see, a few mile
. Nippur; or, Explorations and adventures on the Euphrates : the narrative of the University of Pennsylvania expedition to Babylonia in the years 1888-1890 . is day. Chesney sought for them withoutsuccess, but succeeded in obtaining the skin of one froina native; and Layard says that he heard one bray in theSinjar hills on the other edge of the desert. Evidentlythey are now reduced to a dodo remnant. The same istrue of the lions, once so common over all western elephant and ostrich, formerly inhabitants of theseregions, have vanished altogether. From Abu-Kemal we could see, a few miles to thesouthwest, low hills with three low peaks, called Thela-tha, (-the three), which are quite a landmark. A littleto the east of south in the distance was visible el-Kaim,where are Arabic ruins. On the other side of the riv^erwas an approaching line of bluffs, on the point of which,between Abu-Kemal and el-Kaim, were the ruins ofel-Trsi, extremely picturesque to look at. Kieperts map,following the map of the English expedition under Ches-ney, has a number of errors at this point. Several townsgiven by him do not now exist, and probably never DEIR TO AXAIL I 37 They are the names of tent villages, whicli appear anddisappear with great rapidity. Even the mud villagesare by no means permanent, and the names of localitieschange frequently: so, where Chesney found the nameOuerdi opposite Abu-Kemal, we found the name British explorers observed a river or canal enteringthe Euphrates a little above the hills on which the ruinsof Trsi stand. For this they heard the name , in his account of Cyruss march against hisbrother Artaxerxes, says, that, after leaving the riverKhabor, they marched through a desert five days journey(thirty-five parasangs), and came to the river Maska, aplethron broad ; where was a large deserted city, namedKorsote, which is surrounded by the Maska. Ains-worth identifies the Musah with the Maska; and, as thereis no other river repo
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