. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . KING SENNACHEEIB WATCHING THE TEANSPOET OFA COLOSSAL STATUE. over the entrance, and for the construction of which a newmethod of rapid casting had been invented. Formerly theerection of such edifices cost much in suffering to theartificers employed on them, but Sennacherib brought hisgreat enterprise to a prompt completion without extravagantoutlay or unnecessary hardship inflicted on his proceeded to annex the neighbouring quarters of the 1 Drawn by Faucber-Gudin, from VIII. ^ 66 SENNACHERIB city, relegating th
. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . KING SENNACHEEIB WATCHING THE TEANSPOET OFA COLOSSAL STATUE. over the entrance, and for the construction of which a newmethod of rapid casting had been invented. Formerly theerection of such edifices cost much in suffering to theartificers employed on them, but Sennacherib brought hisgreat enterprise to a prompt completion without extravagantoutlay or unnecessary hardship inflicted on his proceeded to annex the neighbouring quarters of the 1 Drawn by Faucber-Gudin, from VIII. ^ 66 SENNACHERIB city, relegating the inhabitants to the suburbs while he laidout a great park on the land thus cleared; this park waswell planted with trees, like the heights of Amanus, and inifc flourished side by side all the forest growths indigenous. ASSYRIAN BAS-KELIEFS AT BAVIAN. to the Cilician mountains and the plains of Chaldsea. Alake, fed by a canal leading from the Khuzur, supplied itwith water, which was conducted in streams and rUlsthrough the thickets, keeping them always fresh and trained on trellises afforded a grateful shade during 1 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a sketch in Layard. ASSUR-NAZIR-PALS AQUEDUCT ENLARGED 67 the sultry hours of the day; birds sang in the branches,herds of wild boar and deer roamed through the coverts,in order that the prince might enjoy the pleasures of thechase without quitting his own private grounds. The mainpart of these constructions was finished about 700 , butmany details were left incomplete, and the work was stiUproceeding after the court had long been in residence onthe spot. Meanwhile a smaller palace, as well as barracksand a dep6t for arms and provisions, sprang up aqueducts, carried across the country, broughtthe water from the Muzri to the
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