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 TYPICAI, ARAB VILLAGE: AND :FORT : LOWI:r BABYLONIA 



"Fifty miles west of Bagdad, along the Euphrates, lies the region now commonly re- 

 garded as the Garden of Eden. To) irrigate this Eden and to reclaim millions of fertile 

 acres around Bagdad is the stupendous task to which the Turkish government has addressed 

 itself" (see text, page s6o). 



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