Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war . assiduous cul-tivation, does not expose it to lapse into idleness,while the climate in the uplands, moderate in sum-mer, severe in winter, with several months of snowand frost, and great variations of temperature withinthe twenty-four hours, is wholesome and bracing,and certainly does not encourage effeminacy. Thewant of water, the great plague of the level parts ofEran, which begins to be felt at once in the plainsinto which the mountains of Persis slope dow
Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war . assiduous cul-tivation, does not expose it to lapse into idleness,while the climate in the uplands, moderate in sum-mer, severe in winter, with several months of snowand frost, and great variations of temperature withinthe twenty-four hours, is wholesome and bracing,and certainly does not encourage effeminacy. Thewant of water, the great plague of the level parts ofEran, which begins to be felt at once in the plainsinto which the mountains of Persis slope down, to 2/6 MEDIA, BABYLON, AND PERSIA. the cast and north, (h)cs not affect the uplands,which abound in mountain springs, although thereis no room for long and wide rivers, the five ridgeswhich stretch across the country being broken onlyby narrow and precipitous passes. The wooded pas-tures on the mountain sides and the rich meadowsin the valleys were a very paradise for cattle, so thatthe Eranian settlers had every encouragement tofollow the two pursuits recommended to them asessentially worthy and holy—farming and cattle-rais-. 37. PERSIAN AND MEDIAN FOOT-SOLDIERS. mg The Greeks ascribed much of the enduranceand warlike qualities for which they respected thePersians to the fact of their living so much out-of-doors and being trained to watchfulness by theiroccupation of guarding flocks and herds by day andby night. Riding, also, was in much favor amongthem, and hunting of every kind was their favoriteexercise and pastime, for their mountains swarmedwith pheasants, partridge, grouse, and other smallgame, while the open country teemed with lions,bears, antelope, wild asses, etc., and invited to all MEDIA AND THK RISE OF FERSId. tlic royal sports of the Assyrians. It naturally fol-lows that the Persians were accomplished Herodotus, in a celebrated passage, expresslysays that their sons were carefully instructed fromtheir fifth to their twentieth year in three
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