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Storms of this nature are frequent during the early part of summer throughout Mesopotamia, Babylonia, and Susiana. It is difficult to convey an idea of their violence. They appear suddenly and without any previous sign, and seldom last above an hour. It was during one of them that the Tigris steamer, under the command of Colonel Chesney, was wrecked in the Euphrates; and so darkened was the atmosphere, that, although the vessel was within a short distance of the bank of the river, several persons who were in her are supposed to have lost their lives from not knowing in what direction to swim.
9
Chamber B, plan 3.
10
This bas-relief will be placed in the British Museum.
11
Entrance A, chamber B, plan 3.
12
Ricobaldus Ferrariensis, Murat. Diss. 23.
13
Washington Irving, “Tales of the Alhambra.”
14
Murryat on Pottery, p. 19.
15
Prescott’s “Conquest of Mexico.”
16
Ibid. p. 123.
17
“Conquest of Mexico,” vol. i. p. 130.
18
Ibid. p. 36.
19
Stephens’ “Central America,” vol. ii. p. 442.
20
Encyc. Britann., art. China.