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Title: The thrones and palaces of Babylon and Ninevah from sea to sea; a thousand miles on horseback ..
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Newman, John Philip, 1826-1899
Subjects: Babylonia -- Description and travel Iraq -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ns perform-ing magic tricks; of story-tellers convulsing with laugh-ter the listening crowd ; of Jewish money-changers, everwilling to turn an honest penny ; of mule-owners, alwaysanxious to transport the traveler; of soldiers struttingin their little brief authority; of beggars, whose persist-ent importunities, if directed to the right place, wouldopen the pearly gates of paradise. Nearly half the space included within the walls iscovered with the ruins of better days; and in the otherhalf are gardens, wherein are the orange, the fig, the pom-egranate, the apricot, and the palm. The streets are nar-row, crooked, unpaved, and, on rainy days, impassable forpedestrians. No people in the world bathe half so oftenas the Turks, yet no people are half so indifferent to offensive odors. Whatever is within, the outside of theplatter is never clean. They are passionately fond ofperfumes, and aie partial to the oil of roses; yet thereis not a street in Bagdad that is not a sink of deadlyvapors.
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BABYLON AND NINEVEH. 107 The gloom of the principal thoroughfares is increasedby the construction and the materials of the buildings.Most of the houses are composed of a pale-yellow brick,and on either side of the street are blank walls, pene-trated by a low, narrow door-way, with here and therea small latticed window. The entrance is secured by aheavy door of planks, fastened by strong iron clamps,and, when closed, is an eifectual barrier to all intruders.This low jDortal leads to a spacious court-yard, openinginto which are ranges of apartments furnished and orna-mented according to the wealth and taste of the occu-pants. Connected with all the better class of privateresidences in Bagdad are subterranean rooms, called ser-dauhSj which are a cool retreat in the day-time from theintense heat of summer. The flat roofs of the dwellingsare so many unroofed chambers, wherein the family takethe evening meal and sleep during the heated season.And, as may be readily imagined, the early dawn

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