The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia . ^<^ -^^z. Chalclaean Reeds (from a slab of Sennacherib). tliem into arches, to make the skeleton of theirbuildings; while, to form the walls, they stretchacross from arch to arch mats made of the tlie same fragile substance they construct theirterradas or light boats, which, when rendered water-proof by means of bitumen, will support the weightof three or four men/ Lnyard, ]i]). 522-524. 48 THE FIRST MONARCHY. Chap. II. In mineral
The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia . ^<^ -^^z. Chalclaean Reeds (from a slab of Sennacherib). tliem into arches, to make the skeleton of theirbuildings; while, to form the walls, they stretchacross from arch to arch mats made of the tlie same fragile substance they construct theirterradas or light boats, which, when rendered water-proof by means of bitumen, will support the weightof three or four men/ Lnyard, ]i]). 522-524. 48 THE FIRST MONARCHY. Chap. II. In mineral products Chaldsea was very deficientindeed. The alluvium is wholly destitute of metals,and even of stone, which must be obtained, if wanted,from the adjacent countries. The neighbouring partsof Arabia could furnish sandstone and the more dis-tant basalt; which appears to have been in fact trans-ported occasionally to the Chaldaean cities.^ Pro-bably, however, the chief importation of stone wasby the rivers, whose waters would readily convey itto almost any part of Chaldasa from the regions abovethe alluvium. This we know to have been done insome cases ; *^
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