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Excerpt from A Pilgrim's Scrip I have of set purpose avoided giving an account of the discoveries in the excavations conducted by the British Museum under Mr. L. W. King and myself at Nineveh in 1904-5, and under Mr. D. G. Hogarth, Mr. T. E. Lawrence and myself at Carchemish in 1911; these chapters together with those on Behistun (of which the official account has been published by the Museum) and the roads between Mosul and Damascus contain the matter of notes which I made while in those parts in the service of the Trustees of the British Museum, to whom I am indebted for leave to publish them, and for this courtesy I wish to offer my thanks. For the few opinions expressed the responsibility is naturally mine. The chapter on my journey in Asia Minor is in part based on my article published by the Society of Biblical Archaeology in their Proceedings (Vol. XXXII, p. 181), on which I have drawn in many places; to the same Society are also due my thanks for some quotations from my notes on the folklore of Mosul, which they published ibidem, Vol. XXVIII, p. 76. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.