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 THi; TRADITIONAL TOWER OF BABEL: IMPOSING RUINS AT BARSTFFA, NEAR BAGDAD 



"Nebuchadnezzar's vast irrigation system, which once watered all Babylonia, can still be 

 easily traced for miles about Bagdad. One giant canal, the Narawan, runs parallel with the 

 Tigris for nearly 300 miles ; it is 350 feet wide, and all about it the take-offs and laterals 

 may still be identified. Herodotus says he found a 'forest of verdure from end to end' 

 when he visited Mesopotamia" (see text, page 560). 



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