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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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e mountainchain of Zagros, varying from 300 to 170miles. Allowing Assyria the extent here as-signed, her area was probably not less than75,000 square miles—very much larger thanChaldea or Babylon, exceeding that of Prus-sia or Austria, and almost equaling that of1 Great Britain. She was thus, from her size,calculated to play an important part in his-tory, since no nation with which, at the peri-od of her greatness, she came in contact pos-sessed so extensive a territory. Within theselimits, the face of the country is tolerablyvaried. Lower ranges of hills on the northand north-east adjoin the chains of Armeniaand Kurdistan; undulating districts succeed,sinking down into the great Mesopotamianflat intersected by the beautiful limestoneridge of the Sinjar. The tracts on the rightbank of the Tigris are almost desert; thoseon the left, eastward, are well watered andmore fertile; and there are still evident tracesof ancient cultivation and prosperity. The1 Gen. x., 22. ASSYRIA 81 ASSYRIA
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Map of Assyria. climate varies, of course, with the latitude,and elevation from an extreme one in thenorth of Western Assyria to a more moder-ate one in Eastern Assyria. But little rainfalls in Assyria, and the greatest part of thecountry, elevated above the courses of therivers, tends, in the absence of a sufficientwater supply, to become a bare and ariddesert. If water is to be supplied in ade-quate quantity to the thirsty soil, it mustbe derived from the rivers. The dependenceof the present inhabitants, both for pastureand grain, is upon the occasional rains ofwinter, and the frequent showers of spring.There is scarcely any irrigation; and thoughthe soil is so productive that wherever theland is cultivated, good crops are commonlyobtained by means of the spring rains, andelsewhere Nature robes herself in verdure ofthe richest kind during the spring, yet theheat of summer spreads barrenness over theBcene, the crops ripen and are gathered in; the grass withereth, the flower fadeth;no

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