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Title: Nineveh and Babylon : a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, & 1851
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Layard, Austen Henry, Sir, 1817-1894
Subjects: Nineveh (Extinct city) Babylon (Extinct city) Middle East -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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et ofthe mountain streams opens into the valley of Mahmoudiyah,in the centre of which rises an isolated rock crowned by thepicturesque castle of Kosh-Ab. We pitched our tents on a green lawn, near the bank ofthe foaming stream which sweeps round the foot of the cas-tellated rock. Soon after our arrival a Kurdish Bey, of ve-nerable appearance, a descendant of the hereditary chiefs of * Moses of Chorene, 1. ii. c. 19. St. Martin, Mem. surlArmenie,vol. i. p. 139. NINEVEH AND BABYLON. (Chap. Mahmoudiyah, called upon me. He had once been theowner of the castle, but had been driven from it by an ad-venturer of some celebrity in this part of Kurdistan. Thismarauder had recently been captured by the Turks, who hadseized his property, but had not restored it to its rightfulowner. The village, once a town, whose ruined mosques,baths, and bridges still remain, was named Mahmoudiyah,after a certain Mahmoud Bey, who was of the noble Kurdishfamily claiming lineal descent from the Abbasside caliphs.
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The Castle of Mahmoudiy.ih. of which the Bey of Jezirah, or Bohtan, is the acknowledgedhead. The castle, built in the fifteenth century, is calledNerin, or more generally Kosh-Ab, the sweet water, fromthe pure stream flowing beneath it. We rose early next morning, and went up to the castle.As it was still Ramazan, the small garrison of regular troopsand undisciplined Albanians had feasted during the night andwere now slcc)nng. We knocked at the iron-bound gate for VIII.) LAKE AND CITY OF WAN. 203 some time without arousing the slumberers. At length aslip-shod sentinel, who appeared to have been fast asleep athis post, drew back the rusty bolts. He would not, however,admit us, until he had received orders from the officer incommand, who, with much good-nature, slipt on a thread-bare uniform, turned out the scarcely-awakened guard, andreceived us with military honours. The castle is falling intoruins, though its towers still rise boldly from the edge of theprecipice, overhanging at a gi

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