CHAPTER XVI.

Discoveries at Kouyunjik.--Procession of Figures bearing Fruit and Game.--Locusts.--Led Horses.--An Assyrian Campaign.--Dagon, or the Fish-God.--The Chambers of Records.--Inscribed Clay Tablets.--Return to Nimroud.--Effects of the Flood.-- Discoveries.--Small Temple under high Mound.--The Evil Spirit.--Fish-God.--Fine Bas-relief of the King.--Extracts from the Inscription.--Great inscribed Monolith.--Extracts from the Inscription.--Cedar Beams.--Small Objects.--Second Temple.-- Marble Figure and other Objects 280