id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt uiug.30112074870798 Fraser, James Baillie Mesopotamia and Assyria : from the earliest ages to the present time by J. Baillie Fraser ; with illustrations of their natural history ; with a map and engravings 1842 .txt text/plain 106694 5064 69 primeval empires will be found collected in the " Universal Ancient History," a work of very great learning Erzeroum), Colonel Chesney remarks* that the Euphrates may be described as a river of the first order, more frequent; and near the remains of ancient Babylon two streams called the Nil proceed from the river, In the mean time, Nabopolassar died, leaving the kingdom to his son, the celebrated Nebuehadnezzar (or Nabuchodonosor), who completed the destruction of the Assyrian power about From this time we bear little of the condition or fortunes of the great city. All these, and the rest of the ruins hereafter to be described, consist of mounds of earth formed by the decomposition of buildings channelled by the weather, and the is found the first grand mass of ruins, which, in consequence of having upon it a small domed building, said On the left hand, they observed a large ruined town called Benaweel, near which ./cache/uiug.30112074870798.pdf ./txt/uiug.30112074870798.txt