. Discoveries among the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon : with travels in Armenia, Kurdistan, and the desert : being the result of a second expedition undertaken for the trustees of the British museum. Scientific expeditions. 396 !N"mEVEH AND Babylon. as they were well or ill disposed, I could venture to com- mence excavations in the most important ruins on the site of Babylon. Half concealed among the palm trees on the eastern banks of the Euphrates above Hil- lah, are a few ham- lets belonging to Arabs, who till the soil. From them I was able to procure workmen, and thus to make up, with t
. Discoveries among the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon : with travels in Armenia, Kurdistan, and the desert : being the result of a second expedition undertaken for the trustees of the British museum. Scientific expeditions. 396 !N"mEVEH AND Babylon. as they were well or ill disposed, I could venture to com- mence excavations in the most important ruins on the site of Babylon. Half concealed among the palm trees on the eastern banks of the Euphrates above Hil- lah, are a few ham- lets belonging to Arabs, who till the soil. From them I was able to procure workmen, and thus to make up, with the addition of my Je- bours, several parties of excavators. They were placed under the superintendence of Latiff Agha and an intelligent Chal- ^ 5T,oo>^po, le memoirs on the site of the city were my text-books during my researches at Baby- lon. In the preface, by his widow, to the collected edition of his memoirs, will be found an interesting summary of the researches and discoveries of previous travellers. Ker Porter, Mr, Buckingham, and several other travellers, have given accounts more or less full of the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Layard, Austen Henry, Sir, 1817-1894. New York : Putnam
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