. The science of railways . Carriage in the Philippine PRIMITIVE CARRIAGE IN TURKEY AND ARMENIA. These countries, about which we hear so muchthe greater part of which is unjust to their rulers,contains within their widely extended and irreg-ular boundaries many interesting monuments of events that have been ofvast consequence to thehuman race in the past. The site of ancient Troyis but a few hours ridefrom , Croesus capital,where money is said tohave been first coined, isbut a little further. Thesubjects of Turkey tendtheir flocks on the sitesof ancient Nineveh a
. The science of railways . Carriage in the Philippine PRIMITIVE CARRIAGE IN TURKEY AND ARMENIA. These countries, about which we hear so muchthe greater part of which is unjust to their rulers,contains within their widely extended and irreg-ular boundaries many interesting monuments of events that have been ofvast consequence to thehuman race in the past. The site of ancient Troyis but a few hours ridefrom , Croesus capital,where money is said tohave been first coined, isbut a little further. Thesubjects of Turkey tendtheir flocks on the sitesof ancient Nineveh andBabylon. The Chaldeans,who were old before theHebrew race existed orthe Bible had been con-ceived, believed the arkto have rested on Jebel Judi, on the Upper were similar Syriac and Arabian sites of Tarsus and opulent Antioch lie within (816). CARRIAGE IN TURKEY AND ARMENIA. 317 Turkish territory. The greatest voyagers, traflBck-ers and maritime traders of antiquity, the Phoeni-cians, had their home at Tyre and Sidon, along theeastern shore of tlie Mediterranean, in what is nowknown as Asiatic Turkey. Jerusalem and Palestinelie immediately east. Still further on lies Chaldea,the birthplace of the human race in the estimationof many, and from whence sprung the culture ofthe west. It is now desolate and its people havepassed away, but the Tigris and the Euphrates
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