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the Christian mind which has been associated since childhood 
with the account given in Holy Writ of Jonah's divine mission 
to Nineveh, of Sennacherib and his carrying- away the ten 
tribes to Assyria, and Media, and of Nebuchadnezzar and 
the Jewish Captivity. 
3. The widespread fragments of pottery, brick, and stone, 
(the remnants of those two ancient cities of Chaldea, and 
Assyria,) which are scattered all over those countries, give 
evident signs of the utter destruction of those great kingdoms, 
and stand as a living monument to God's vengeance in visiting 
them with His wrath for their pride, wickedness, and boasting, 
even against Jehovah Himself, who said, “ To me belongeth 
vengeance and recompense !" 
4. I must in the first place give you an outline of the exist- 
ing* different routes through which a traveller can visit Nineveh 
and Babylon ; and to do so Mossul and Baghdad must be 
touched at, as they are nigh to those Biblical cities, especially 
as the traveller will be able to supply himself therefrom with 
the necessary provisions for the journey. Mossul stands on 
the right bank of the Tigris, and Nineveh is on the opposite 
side of the river, while Baghdad is situated about 300 miles 
lower down on both sides of the same river ; but Babylon, or 
at least the site of its ruins, stands on the left bank of the 
Euphrates, about sixty miles to the south of Baghdad. There is 
a town of some importance in the proximity of Babylon which 
is generally thought to be in the centre of its ancient limit, 
called Hilla ; but travellers who proceed so far east would 
like, while being in the neighbourhood, to visit the renowned 
city of Haroon el-Rasheed, and the ruins of Seleucia, and the 
Parthian palace of Ctesiphon, in the vicinity of Baghdad. 
5. At present there are several routes which a traveller may 
take in visiting Mossul and Baghdad. One of those which I 
generally take, and which is the safest for an ordinary traveller, 
is by starting from the Port of Alexandretta, or Iscanderoon, 
and going over the Bailan Pass, about 2,000 feet above the 
level of the sea, and crossing the Plain of Antioch, leaving the 
Lake on the right, and arriving at Aleppo, after being knocked 
about from the rugged state of the road, in three days' slow 
marches ; the whole distance not being more than sixty miles. 
6. It is necessary for a traveller who wishes to make his 
long journey with ease and comfort to spend two or three days 
at Aleppo, the supposed site of Zobah, in order that he may 
provide himself with servants, riding and baggage animals, 
the requisite supply of provisions, such as sugar, butter, 
coffee, tea, spices, rice, and flour ; because these necessaries 
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