 The whole country between Bagdad and Hillah is perfectly flat, and (with the exception of a few spots as you approach the latter place) an uncultivated waste. That it was at some former period in a far different state is evident from the number of canals...  De gestis Alexandri Magni - Pagina 375di Quintus Curtius Rufus - 1841 - 972 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1816 - 514 pagine
...would have formed any theory in inextricable confusion. The whole country between Bagdad and Hellah is perfectly flat, and (with the exception of a few spots as you approach the latter place) an uncultivated waste. That it was at some former period in a far ditferent state, is evident... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1832 - 1030 pagine
...natives, in travelling over these pathless deserts, are compelled to explore their way by the stars." " The whole country between Bagdad and Hillah is a perfectly flat and (with the exception of a few spot» as you approach the latter place) uncullirated waste. That it was at some former period in a... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1832 - 1094 pagine
...are compelled to explore their way by the stars." " The whole country between Bagdad and Hillah ie a perfectly flat and (with the exception of a few spots as you approach the latter place) uncultivated waste. That it was at some former period in a far different state, is evident from... | |
 | Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet - 1853 - 274 pagine
...predictions. A late traveller remarks, " The whole country between Bagdad and Hellah," modern Babylon, " is a perfectly flat and, with the exception of a few spots as you approach the latter place, uncultivated waste. That it was at some former period in a far different state, is evident from... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1835 - 464 pagine
...gates, the traveller has before him " the prospect of a bare desert,—a flat and barren country. - - - The whole country between Bagdad and Hillah is a perfectly...exception of a few spots as you approach the latter place) uncultivated wasted " That it was at some, former period in a far different state, is evident... | |
 | Claudius James Rich - 1839 - 494 pagine
...the environs of Hillah, and commence my description with an account of the country about that place. The whole country between Bagdad and Hillah is a perfectly...exception of a few spots as you approach the latter place) uncultivated waste. That it was at some former period in a far different state, is evident from... | |
 | Quintus Curtius Rufus - 1841 - 1074 pagine
...künstliche Bewässerung der Felder Sorge zu tragen, so würde das Land jetzt, wo die Kanüle meistentheils in Verfall sind, nicht so geringen Ertrag geben. Vcrgl....exception of a few spots as you approach the latter place) uncultivated waste. That is was at some former period in a far different (p. 40) slate, is evident... | |
 | James Baillie Fraser - 1842 - 352 pagine
...throw light on the description, or be the means of exciting others to inquiry and consideration. " The whole country between Bagdad and Hillah is a perfectly...exception of a few spots as you approach the latter place) uncultivated waste. That it was at some former period in a far different state, is evident from... | |
 | 1845 - 350 pagine
...throw light on the description, or be the means of exciting others to inquiry and consideration. " The whole country between Bagdad and Hillah is a perfectly...exception of a few spots as you approach the latter place) uncultivated waste. That it was at some former period, in a far different state, is evident... | |
 | Mary Fawler Maude - 1849 - 498 pagine
...devastation on every side." — MIGNAN'S Trawls. " The whole country between Bagdad and Hillab. is perfectly flat, and (with the exception of a few spots as you approach the latter place) uncultivated waste. That it was at some former period in a far different state, is evident from... | |
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