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 . it is a continuation of the Sinjarriver, which rises about the middle of the range, in long. 41°50, and flows south-east through the desert. The Thartharappears at one time to have reached the Tigris near Tekrit,*^but it now ends m a marsh or lake to the south-west of thatcity.^^ The political geography of Assyria need not occupy much ofour attention. There is no native evidence that in the timeof the gre
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 . it is a continuation of the Sinjarriver, which rises about the middle of the range, in long. 41°50, and flows south-east through the desert. The Thartharappears at one time to have reached the Tigris near Tekrit,*^but it now ends m a marsh or lake to the south-west of thatcity.^^ The political geography of Assyria need not occupy much ofour attention. There is no native evidence that in the timeof the great monarchy the country was formally divided intodistricts, to w^hich any particular names were attached, orwhich w^ere regarded as politically separate from one another;nor do such divisions appear in the classical writers until thetime of the later geographers, Strabo, Dionysius, and it were not that mention is made in the Old Testament ofcertain districts within the region which has been here termedAssjria, we should have no proof that in the early tunes anydivisions at all had been recognized. The names, however, ofPadan-Aram, Aram-Naharaim, Gozan, Halah, and (perhaps). Plate XXXIV. Vol. Fig. 1.
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