By Nile and Tigris : a narrative of Journeys in Egypt and Mesopotamia on behalf of the British Museum between the years 1886 and 1913 . manypeople do, and that Akar Kuf (see p. 327) is thereforenot the Tower of Babel. The town is 1,500 paces inlength, and 700 or 800 in breadth, with a circuit of threemiles. The walls are of brick, and are provided withgreat towers, on which are sixty cannon ; the ditch isfive or six toises deep. The town has foilr gates, three onthe land side and one on the river ; the bridge is ofboats, thirty-three in number. There are five mosquesand ten khans, or public gu
By Nile and Tigris : a narrative of Journeys in Egypt and Mesopotamia on behalf of the British Museum between the years 1886 and 1913 . manypeople do, and that Akar Kuf (see p. 327) is thereforenot the Tower of Babel. The town is 1,500 paces inlength, and 700 or 800 in breadth, with a circuit of threemiles. The walls are of brick, and are provided withgreat towers, on which are sixty cannon ; the ditch isfive or six toises deep. The town has foilr gates, three onthe land side and one on the river ; the bridge is ofboats, thirty-three in number. There are five mosquesand ten khans, or public guest-houses. The town is on each side, and a third at one end acts as a rudder. When thesemachines reach their destination, and the cargo is disposed of, alltheir materials excepting the skins are sold ; but they being previouslyexhausted of their air are laid on the backs of camels, and return byland with their masters to the port whence they had been embarked.—Travels, ii, 260. See also Niebuhr, Reisebeschreibung, ii, 330, 337 ;Thevenot, Voyage, ii, 103 ; Buckingham, Travels, ii, 87 ; Tavernier,Les Six Voyages, i, p. 203. 201. 202 Father F. Vincenzo Maria. badly built. Tavernier then goes on to describe theinhabitants, and some of the funeral ceremonies, costumesof the women, etc. He describes the two sorts of Mus-lims—the Shiites and Sunnites—and the three sorts ofChristians, and the Jews. The population is about 15,000souls, ce qui montre assez que la ville nest pas peupleeselon sa grandeur. Many foreign Jews pass throughBaghdad on their way to visit the Tomb of Ezekiel.^Facing p. 215 Tavemier gives a plan of Baghdad, probablythe first ever published. Father F. Vincenzo Maria, who visited Baghdad inthe middle of the seventeenth century, has nothing butpraise to bestow upon Begadet, the City of Peace,and he describes the Serraglio of the Bassa (Pasha)at considerable length. He found the bazars handsomeand spacious, and thought the climate most perfect, andthe water good
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