Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon

CHAPTER X.

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Visit to Kalah Sherghat prevented.--Visit to Shomamok.-- Keshaf.--The Howar.--A Bedouin.--His Mission.--Descent of Arab Horses.--Their Pedigree.--Ruins of Mokhamour.--The Mound of the Kasr.--Plain of Shomamok.--The Gla or Kalah.--Xenophon and the Ten Thousand.--A Wolf.--Return to Nimroud and Mosul.-- Discoveries at Kouyunjik.--Description of the Bas-reliefs 182