The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia . ce onboth sides. The limestone, of which it is composed,is white, soft, and fossiliferous; it detaches itself inenormous flakes from the mountain-sides, which aresometimes broken into a succession of gigantic steps,while occasionally they present the columnar appear-ance of basalt.^ The flanks of the Sinjar are seamed See Mr. Layards maps at the j ard, 1. ). Jhis is probably tlie end of his Nineveh and a general description of the
The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia . ce onboth sides. The limestone, of which it is composed,is white, soft, and fossiliferous; it detaches itself inenormous flakes from the mountain-sides, which aresometimes broken into a succession of gigantic steps,while occasionally they present the columnar appear-ance of basalt.^ The flanks of the Sinjar are seamed See Mr. Layards maps at the j ard, 1. ). Jhis is probably tlie end of his Nineveh and a general description of the lake,coniiiare the same work, p. 324,with C. Niebuhrs Voyage en Arahie, Holi, or Hauli of some writers,which is rejiresented as a tributaryof the Khabour. (See Cliesney,Euphrates Expedition, vol. i. p. 51; p 316. j Jourmd of Geographical Society, \o\. * A long swamp, called the Hoi, ! ix. p. 423, &c.)extends from the lake to within a I • Layard, Nineveh and distance of the Kliabour (Lay- p. 2r)0. Chap. I. SINJAE TIANGE. 239 with innumerable ravines, and from these smallbrooks issue, which are soon dispersed by irrigation,. or absorbed in the thirsty plains. The sides of themountain are capable of being cultivated by means ^ Layard, Nineveh, and B(dn/Io»., p. 256. Compare Nineveh and iUBemains, vol. i. p. 315, note. 240 THE SECOND MONARCHY. Chap. I. of terraces, and produce fair crops of corn and excel-lent fruit; the top is often wooded with fruit-treesor forest trees.^ Geographically, the Sinjar may beregarded as the continuation of that range of hillswhich shuts in the Tigris on the west, from Tekritnearly to Mosul, and then leaving the river strikesacross the plain in a direction almost from east towest as far as the town of Sinjar, which is in ° 52 east from Greenwich. Here the mountainschange their course and bend to the south-west, tillhaving passed the little lake described above, theysomewhat suddenly subside,^ sinking from a highridge into lo
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