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Title: A dictionary of religious knowledge (electronic resource): for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922 Conant, Thomas Jefferson, 1802-1891
Subjects: Theology Religion
Publisher: New York : Harper
Contributing Library: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library
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, but extendingacross the Euphrates westward to Arabia,and from the Persian Gulf running north-ward to about the 34th degree of latitude,where it joined upon Assyria. This region wasprobably 400 miles in length, with an aver-age breadth of 100 miles. Lying in the samelatitude with Central China, Palestine, Geor-gia, and Central California, it has a climatethe warmth of which is equal to that of anyof those regions. This, together with a soileven to-day not less bountiful naturally thanthat on the banks of the Egyptian Nile, nour-ished by a complicated system of canals andwater-courses, which spread like a net-workover the face of the country, produced a fer-tility which was proverbial. Wheat, barley,and other grains grew wild, and, when culti-vated, the return to the sower has been as-serted to be two hundred or three hundredfold. Wheat was indigenous in Chaldea, 20 ExodProv. xxviii., 14, 22; xxxix., 15-1S; Judg. viii., 21,i.,9; Sol. Songi., 10; Isa. iii., IS; xl., 19. CHALDEA CHALDEA
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General Map of the Chaldean and Associated Empires. CHALDEANS 179 CHALDEANS and excessively luxuriant; the Babyloniansmowed it twice, and then pastured their cat-tle on it for awhile to keep down the bladeand cause it to run to ear. One of the mostornamental products of the country was thatmost beautiful of all vegetable forms—thedate-palm—whose yellow, semi-transparentclusters of dates, which the Greeks likenedto amber, and moderns compare to gold, con-trast, both in shape and tint, with the greenfeathery branches beneath which they hang,giving a greatly added richness to the land-scape. A Persian poem celebrated its threehundred and sixty uses. The land was richin corn and wine, delightful in frequentpalm-groves, rising like islands from a gold-en sea of waving corn, teeming with pop-ulation. Here were the greatest cities ofantiquity, the busy hives of men, Babel,and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh.1 Butnow this once fruitful garden is little bet-ter than a desolate waste. Large tr

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