Book Description

Excerpt from Travels in Mesopotamia, Vol. 1 of 2: Including a Journey From Aleppo to Bagdad, by the Route of Beer, Orfah, Diarbekr, Mardin,& Mousul; With Research on the Ruins of Nineveh, Babylon, and Other Ancient Cities IN laying before the world the present account of a Journey through Mesopotamia, I feel a stronger assurance of its being acceptable to the generality of readers, than I could venture to indulge on either of the two former oom sions on which I had to present to the public eye the result of my researches and observa tions in other countries of the East. The. 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.