a1 WATER STORAGE AND CANALIZATION. 
theme of wonder and admiration of the ancient historians. The 
country below Hit, on the Euphrates, and Samarra, on the Tigris, 
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most ancient and important of which, called the Nahr Malikah, 
connecting the Euphrates with the Tigris, is attributed by tradition 
to Nimrod, King of Babel, 2,204 B.c., whilst other historians 
siderable damage to Babylon and its neighbourhood, and it was 
therefore considered necessary to raise high banks on both sides 
of the river, built of brick, cemented with bitumen, to protect the 
city. To facilitate this purpose, a big lake was dug out 42 
miles in circumference and 35 feet deep, into which the whole 
river was turned by an artificial canal. When the embankments 
the Kutha, and Pallacopus. The Tigris supplied the Nahrawan 
its great antiquity, are testified to by the ruins of numerous goer” 
and cities on both of its banks. It started on the right ba i d 
the Tigris, where the river debouches from the Hamrine Hills, 9 
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was raised by a large band or weir to a sufficient height to = 
of its continuance. It then proceeded through Kuzistan, & and 
ing all the streams from the Sour and Buckharee Mountains, * 
ally flowed into the Kerkha River. It was 
ni days equal in boldness of conception this _stt 
achievement of a generation of 4000 years ago. The 
