October 25, 1917 
LAND & WATER 
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Mesopotamia New and Old 
The New Hindta Dam 
Ruins of Babylon 
Mr. Lewis R. Freeman, in "Bagdad at any Cost," described last week Sir William Willcocks' great barrage 
or dam of the Euphrates at Hindia. The upper picture is a photograph of the Hindia Dam, the lower of 
tke ruias of Babylon- The similarity in the missive masonry work of the two civilisations is remarkable 
