. Mound of Nimroud, CHAPTEK Y. RENEWAL OF EXOATATIONS AT KOUYUNJIK. ^FIEST VISIT TO NIMEOUD. STATE OF EUINS. EENEW EXCAVATIONS IN MOUND. VISIT OF COLO- NEL EAWLIN80N. ME. H. EASSAM. THE JEBOUE WOEKMEN AT KOU- YUNJIK. DISCOVEEIES AT KOUYUNJIK.—SCULPTUEES EEPEE8ENTING MOVING OF GEEAT STONES AND WINGED BULLS. METHODS ADOPTED. EPIGEAPHS ON BA8-EELIEFS OF MOVING BULLS. SCULPTUEES EEPEE- SENTING INVASION OF MOUNTAINOUS COUNTEY, AND SACK! OF CITY. DISCOVEEY OF GATEWAY. EXCAVATION IN HIGH CONICAL MOUND AT NIMEOUD. DISCOVEEY OF WALL OF STONE. ^VISIT TO KH0E8ABAD. DISCOVEEY OF SLAB. STATE OF THE EUINS.
. Mound of Nimroud, CHAPTEK Y. RENEWAL OF EXOATATIONS AT KOUYUNJIK. ^FIEST VISIT TO NIMEOUD. STATE OF EUINS. EENEW EXCAVATIONS IN MOUND. VISIT OF COLO- NEL EAWLIN80N. ME. H. EASSAM. THE JEBOUE WOEKMEN AT KOU- YUNJIK. DISCOVEEIES AT KOUYUNJIK.—SCULPTUEES EEPEE8ENTING MOVING OF GEEAT STONES AND WINGED BULLS. METHODS ADOPTED. EPIGEAPHS ON BA8-EELIEFS OF MOVING BULLS. SCULPTUEES EEPEE- SENTING INVASION OF MOUNTAINOUS COUNTEY, AND SACK! OF CITY. DISCOVEEY OF GATEWAY. EXCAVATION IN HIGH CONICAL MOUND AT NIMEOUD. DISCOVEEY OF WALL OF STONE. ^VISIT TO KH0E8ABAD. DISCOVEEY OF SLAB. STATE OF THE EUINS. ^FUTHLIYAH. BAAZANI. ^BAASHEIKHAH. W^E were again in Mosul by the 12tli of October. The Jebours, my old workmen, had now brought their fami- lies to the town. I directed them to cross the river, and to pitch their tents over the excavations at Kouyniijik, as they had formerly done around the trenches at Nimroud. The Bedouins, unchecked in their forays by the Turkish authorities, had become so bold, that they ventured to the very walls of Mosul, and I felt it necessary to have a strong party on the ruins for self-defence. The Jebours
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