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with probably a central space between the towers for 

 fire worship. It had walled enclosures, perhaps colos- 

 sal lions, at the entrances; all which seem to have 

 been common with other structures of the same kind, 

 and notably in the Budh temples of Suka in Java, 

 where every one of the foregoing particularities exist. 

 If the Chaldeans had been established in a great 

 kingdom when Abraham entered Canaan, it is unlikely 

 that the Elamite Arabs would be sufficiently strong to 

 make alliances with other princes, and undertake in- 

 vasions to so great a distance as the vicinity of Jeru- 

 salem ; and in the Egyptian historical paintings of the 

 conquests of Sesostris, and of Thothmes II. and III., 

 all of which appear to have been directed to the valley 

 of the Oxus, that in these transactions, there should 

 be no acknowledged representations of Babylonians 

 or Chaldeans, either as allies or enemies. They first 

 appear as prisoners captured by Tirhaka; whence it 

 seems, that either the Egyptian conquerors never 

 proceeded so far east as the Euphrates, or that the 

 Babylonian empire did not, at so early a date (that 

 is, in or about the reign of Cushan-rishathaim), em- 

 brace the upper course of that river or of the Tigris.* 



* These coloured delineations contain, however, a series 

 of nations, most assuredly representing tribes of high- 

 featured Caucasians, and the more vertical profiles of the 

 midland colonies, which can be traced from Indo-Koosh to 

 Asia Minor and Greece. There are fair-haired people, 

 with a blue round spot upon the forehead, like a tribal, or 

 caste mark. They are the Rebo, with ox-hide mantles 

 and tattooed skins, Cyclopians of High Armenia ; and some 



