Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . THK UEUISTAN Si tLtTlUES InS( KIPTIONS (From Rawliiisou) 0^^-?. Klli, the Head auiDE in the Ascemt REACHING THE LOFTY LEDGE 193 record are each about six feet broad. The exact measure-ments in meters, if one cares to have them, are : 1st col. = ; 2d col. = ; 3d col. = (approx.) ; 4th col. = (approx.). The 5th column I did not measure, owing to thedifficulty of access to it. The place occupied by the Neo-Elamitic (Scythian or Median} inscription is around a crag tot
Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . THK UEUISTAN Si tLtTlUES InS( KIPTIONS (From Rawliiisou) 0^^-?. Klli, the Head auiDE in the Ascemt REACHING THE LOFTY LEDGE 193 record are each about six feet broad. The exact measure-ments in meters, if one cares to have them, are : 1st col. = ; 2d col. = ; 3d col. = (approx.) ; 4th col. = (approx.). The 5th column I did not measure, owing to thedifficulty of access to it. The place occupied by the Neo-Elamitic (Scythian or Median} inscription is around a crag tothe left of the Old Persian, as one faces the inscription, and fortaking me there my most reliable guide wished to quintuplehis price, while the Babylonian tablet on the overhanging ledgeabove to the left and to the right is the most inaccessible ofall, as Rawlinson himself discovered, when his guides failedhim and he found only one Kurdish shepherd lad who wouldventure to undertake to reach it and accomplished with diffi-culty the risky task of taking the squeezes of that inscription.^On looking at the mass of scarped rock one wonders howthe daring boy ever accomplished
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