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RUINS OF THE PARTHIAN PALACE OF CTESIPHON 

 This ancient town, now the centre of the Mesopotamian theatre of war, is on the Tigris, twenty-five 

 miles below Bagdad. Herodotus says grain produced two hundred and even three hundred-fold in this 

 region, and that blades of wheat were often four fingers wide. Either Herodotus got his information from 

 the secretary of the Babylonian Chamber of Commerce, or else Mesopotamia possessed better farmers 

 than any part of the world possesses today. 



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