id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt nyp.33433070301860 NONE The Euphrates and the Tigris ... with a description of the ruins of Babylon and Nineveh 1879 .txt text/plain 27567 1409 71 epoch, it would seem to have been of little importance; certainly inferior to the great Assyrian capital, represented as saying: "Of the great waters, like great river which had been the source of Babylon's to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken lofty banks of ancient canals traverse the country banks of the river are occupied by Arab villages. in sight of the tower of El-Kaim, and, soon afterwards, of the waters of the great Euphrates, sparkling in the sunshine, at El-Werdi. of the Tigris, and the ruins of the great cities on its Bagdad has the appearance of a great city; and, Moreover, the position of this ancient and celebrated city, on a great navigable river which flows riches of great cities, had been succeeded by ruins With the Euphrates must always be associated the name of Babylon; with the Tigris that ./cache/nyp.33433070301860.pdf ./txt/nyp.33433070301860.txt