Remains of Lost Empires: Sketches of the Ruins of Palmyra, Nineveh, Babylon, And Persepolis, With Some Notes On India And the Cashmerian Himalayas
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— Oriental Splendor. — Science and Literature. — Decline of the Power of the Caliphs. — Bagdad of To-day. — Site of the City. — Views along the Tigris. — A Railroad. — A Summer Palace. — Government- house. — Hospital. — Coffee-houses. — General View of the City. — Streets and Bazaars. — The People. — English Residency. — Courts.-^ Subterranean Apartments. — Ornamentation of Rooms. — An Indian Prince. — Mosaic Population. — Babel of Languages. — Sabbaths in Bagdad. — Religious Edifices. — Telegr...aphs. — Steam upon the Tigris.
— Modern Improvements.
Bagdad is the only living city of any note in a region filled with the entombed cities of dead mon- archies. It is the present representative of the sixth and last of the great capitals that arose successively on the Chaldaean plains ; and we may regard it as the representative of ancient Babylon, as the authority of that imperial city was transfeiTed successively to the royal Seleucia of the Greeks, to Ctesiphon of the Par- thians, to Al-Madain of the Persians, and, lastly, to Cufa and Bagdad of the Caliphs.
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— Oriental Splendor. — Science and Literature. — Decline of the Power of the Caliphs. — Bagdad of To-day. — Site of the City. — Views along the Tigris. — A Railroad. — A Summer Palace. — Government- house. — Hospital. — Coffee-houses. — General View of the City. — Streets and Bazaars. — The People. — English Residency. — Courts.-^ Subterranean Apartments. — Ornamentation of Rooms. — An Indian Prince. — Mosaic Population. — Babel of Languages. — Sabbaths in Bagdad. — Religious Edifices. — Telegr...aphs. — Steam upon the Tigris.
— Modern Improvements.
Bagdad is the only living city of any note in a region filled with the entombed cities of dead mon- archies. It is the present representative of the sixth and last of the great capitals that arose successively on the Chaldaean plains ; and we may regard it as the representative of ancient Babylon, as the authority of that imperial city was transfeiTed successively to the royal Seleucia of the Greeks, to Ctesiphon of the Par- thians, to Al-Madain of the Persians, and, lastly, to Cufa and Bagdad of the Caliphs.
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