. The science of railways . CARRIAGE IN TURKEY AND ARMENIA. 317 Turkish territory. The greatest voyagers, traflBck-ers and maritime traders of antiquity, the Phoeni-cians, had their home at Tyre and Sidon, along theeastern shore of tlie Mediterranean, in what is nowknown as Asiatic Turkey. Jerusalem and Palestinelie immediately east. Still further on lies Chaldea,the birthplace of the human race in the estimationof many, and from whence sprung the culture ofthe west. It is now desolate and its people havepassed away, but the Tigris and the Euphrates. remain, and by their aid we are able to ide
. The science of railways . CARRIAGE IN TURKEY AND ARMENIA. 317 Turkish territory. The greatest voyagers, traflBck-ers and maritime traders of antiquity, the Phoeni-cians, had their home at Tyre and Sidon, along theeastern shore of tlie Mediterranean, in what is nowknown as Asiatic Turkey. Jerusalem and Palestinelie immediately east. Still further on lies Chaldea,the birthplace of the human race in the estimationof many, and from whence sprung the culture ofthe west. It is now desolate and its people havepassed away, but the Tigris and the Euphrates. remain, and by their aid we are able to identifythe spot. Upon these streams little change hasoccurred. The same circular boats, the samecurious rafts borne upon inflated skins thatHerodotus described twenty-three hundred yearsago, are to-day the principal means of , the theme of poets, philosophers andscholars, was until recently a part of EuropeanTurkey. The country where Carthage stood hasrendered Turkey tribute. Macedonia, wherePhilip reigijed and from whence Alexander 318 CARRIAGE IX TURKEY AXD ARMENIA. started on his conquest of Asia, still forms a partof Turkey. Egypt, the country of the Nile andold beyond calculation, now renders it is Turkey. All the great events of extremeantiquity, it will thus be seen, occurred within its jurisdiction. Everything aboutthe country savorsof ancient times, ofprimitive Constanti-nople on the southernshores of the Euxine(Black Sea) the great-est of primitive car-riers, the mule, wasfirst bred, Her
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