The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia . Chaldscau spear and arrow heads. representations that these instrumeAts are one andall of a rude and coarse character. The flint andstone knives, axes, and hammers, which abound inall the true Chaldeean mounds, are somewhat moreadvanced indeed than those very primitive imple-ments which have been found in the drift; but theyare of a workmanship at least as unskilled as that ofthe ordinary stone celts of Western and NorthernEurope, which till the
The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia . Chaldscau spear and arrow heads. representations that these instrumeAts are one andall of a rude and coarse character. The flint andstone knives, axes, and hammers, which abound inall the true Chaldeean mounds, are somewhat moreadvanced indeed than those very primitive imple-ments which have been found in the drift; but theyare of a workmanship at least as unskilled as that ofthe ordinary stone celts of Western and NorthernEurope, which till the discoveries of M. Perthes wereregarded as the most ancient human remains in our 122 THE FIRST MONARCHY. Chap. V.
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