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Title: By Nile and Tigris : a narrative of Journeys in Egypt and Mesopotamia on behalf of the British Museum between the years 1886 and 1913
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934
Subjects: Egypt -- Antiquities Egypt -- Description and travel Iraq -- Description and travel Iraq -- Antiquities
Publisher: London : Murray
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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in a large plain, almost Uke unto Basle onthe Rhine, it is divided into two parts, which are rather bigger thanBasle, but nothing near so pleasant, nor so well built, for the streetsthereof are pretty narrow, and many houses so miserably built thatsome of them are down to the first story, and others lie quite in ruines.The case is the same with the Churches, which for age look black,and are so much decayed that you shall hardly find a whole one;whereon are still several old Arabian, or rather Chaldean, inscriptionsto be seen, cut in stone, by the means whereof many antiquities ofthe town might have been explained, but I could not only not readthem, but could get no body that could interpret them to me. Thereare buildings that are worth seeing, as the Camp of the TurkishBashaw, and the great Bazaar or Exchange beyond the river in theother town, and the Baths which are not to be compared with thoseof Aleppo and Tripoh, for they are at the bottom and on the walls To face p. 196, vol. i.
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Rauwolfs Description of Baghdad. 197 done over with pitch, which maketh them so black and dark thateven in the day time you have but httle hght. There being twotowns, one of them which heth on this side is quite open, so thatyou may go in and out by night without any molestation ; whereforeit should rather be called a great village than a town ; but the otherthat heth towards Persia on the confines of Assyria, is very wellfortified with walls and ditches, chiefly towards the Tigris, wherethere are also some towers, two whereof are within by the gates thatlead towards the water side, to guard them, and between them arethe old high walls of the town, where on the top are stately writings,with golden letters, each whereof is about a foot long, to be seen ;the true meaning thereof I would fain have learned, but for want ofunderstanding and interpreters, I could not obtain it, but was forcedto go without it. Near unto it is a bridge made of boats that reachethover the Tigris into the other

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