Travels in Mesopotamia: Including a Journey from Aleppo, Across the Euphrates to Orfah,(the Ur of the Chaldees) Through the Plains of the Turcomans, to Diarbekr, in Asia Minor; from Thence to Mardin, on the Borders of the Great Desert, and by the Tigris to Mousul and Bagdad: with Researches on the Ruins of Babylon, Nineveh, Arbela, Ctesiphon, and Seleucia |
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Aleppo Altoun ancient appearance Arabs Arbela arch Arrian Babylon Bagdad banks bazārs Belus Benjamin of Tudela bricks building called camels caravan caravanserai castle centre chief chiefly Christians colour Constantinople court Ctesiphon D'Anville Desert Diarbekr distance dress dwellings east eastern Edessa edifice Egypt encamped Euphrates feet fifty gardens gate going ground Hadjee halt Hauran height Herodotus Hillah hills horses hour hundred inhabitants inscriptions journey khan Koords l'Euphrate le Tigre Mardin masonry Memoir Mesopotamia miles minarets Mohammedan mosque mounds mountains Mousul nearly night Nineveh Nisibis observed Orfah palace party Pasha passage passed Persian piastres plain portion present qu'il remains Rennel residence Rich river road Roman ruins says seemed seen Seleucia Sheikh side square stadia stone Strabo stream summit sun-set Syria Tartars temple tent thought thousand Tigre Tigris tomb towers town travelled Turkish Turks village Wahabis walls whole Xenophon Yezeedis