The seven great monarchies of the ancient eastern world: or, The history, geography and antiquities of Chaldæa, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, and Sassanian or New Persian empire . @ Scale of l/tn/t. Plan of Mugheir Ruins. n II H H. sens yanls a n. Platforro on whiili tlie houM a ii buUtA. HotiM cleared. 6. at wljo of platfonn a, \i feetl>:law turlace. %] Tomb mountlwcro m:wlo br Mr. Uifti Points at itliich excavalions ///?/ Ctiiiiparatively ojwn apace of Tory lowmomuU, Plate II. Vol. .€/«»> ^v^ Hcale or ifards. Ruins of \Vaika.(Ercch). A.
The seven great monarchies of the ancient eastern world: or, The history, geography and antiquities of Chaldæa, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, and Sassanian or New Persian empire . @ Scale of l/tn/t. Plan of Mugheir Ruins. n II H H. sens yanls a n. Platforro on whiili tlie houM a ii buUtA. HotiM cleared. 6. at wljo of platfonn a, \i feetl>:law turlace. %] Tomb mountlwcro m:wlo br Mr. Uifti Points at itliich excavalions ///?/ Ctiiiiparatively ojwn apace of Tory lowmomuU, Plate II. Vol. .€/«»> ^v^ Hcale or ifards. Ruins of \Vaika.(Ercch). A. \Vuswa3. C. rarlliiau Edifice of ciiiii3. en. I.] THE FLOOD SEASONS. Q low banks, is hence at all times inclined to leave its bed, and toflow off to the right,** where large tracts are below its ordinarylevel. Over these it spreads itself, forming the well-knownChaldsean marshes,^ which absorb the chief proportion ofthe water that flows into them, and in which the great riverseems at various times to have wholly, or almost wholly, lostitself.*^ No such misfortune can befall the Tigris, which runsin a deep bed, and seldom varies its channel, offering a strongcontrast to the sister stream.^ Frequent allusion has been made, in the course of this de-scription of the Tigris and Euphrates, to the fact of their hav-ing each a flood season. Herodotus is scarcely correct whenhe says that in Babylonia the river does not, as in Egypt,overflow the corn-lands of its own accord, but is spread overthem by the help of engines. ^ Both
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