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Title: The seven great monarchies of the ancient eastern world: or, The history, geography and antiquities of Chaldæa, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, and Sassanian or New Persian empire
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Rawlinson, George, 1812-1902
Subjects: Mauritius Export Development and Investment Authority History, Ancient Assyria -- History Babylonia -- History Parthia -- History Iran -- History
Publisher: New York : J. W. Lovell company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Hcale or ifards. Ruins of \Vaika.(Ercch). A. IVjw.irlycb.U. \Vuswa3. C. rarlliiau ruin.U. Edifice of ciiiii3. en. I.) THE FLOOD SEASONS. Q low banks, is hence at all times inclined to leave its bed, and toflow off to the right,** where large tracts are below its ordinarylevel. Over these it spreads itself, forming the well-knownChaldsean marshes,^ which absorb the chief proportion ofthe water that flows into them, and in which the great riverseems at various times to have wholly, or almost wholly, lostitself.*^ No such misfortune can befall the Tigris, which runsin a deep bed, and seldom varies its channel, offering a strongcontrast to the sister stream.^ Frequent allusion has been made, in the course of this de-scription of the Tigris and Euphrates, to the fact of their hav-ing each a flood season. Herodotus is scarcely correct whenhe says that in Babylonia the river does not, as in Egypt,overflow the corn-lands of its own accord, but is spread overthem by the help of engines. ^ Both

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