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Title: The thrones and palaces of Babylon and Ninevah from sea to sea; a thousand miles on horseback ..
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Newman, John Philip, 1826-1899
Subjects: Babylonia -- Description and travel Iraq -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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with some terri-ble disease, and went to the sea-shore in search of health.The place whither he went was a city on the shores ofthe Persian Gulf, near the mouth of the Euphrates, andcalled in the inscrij^tious Surippak—the City of theArk. In his distress and trial, he sought advice of Hasi-sadra, the Xisuthrus of the Chaldean account, and theNoah of the Bible. Of this eminent saint, who had es-caped the Flood, Izdubar inquired how he could becomeimmortal, and, after a homily on life and death, Hasisa-dra related to Izdubar the story of the Flood. Of all the tablets discovered by Mr. Smith, the Elev-enth is the most perfect and important, as it containsthe legend of the Flood, and is supposed to have beencomposed two thousand years before the Christian era.This tablet, together with its companion tablets, maynow be seen in the Assyrian Department of the BritishMuseum, where they are pieserved as memorials of thepast, and as monuments to the enterprise and success ofmodern discovery.
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CHAMBER WHERE THE TABLETS WERE FOUND. BABYLON AND NINEVEH. 353 The harmony and the difference between the Assyrianand Mosaic accounts of the Flood are worthy of mostcareful attention. The two records agree that the Floodwas a Divine j^unishment for the wickedness of the an-tediluvian world; that God commanded a holy man tobuild an ark, wherein he and his family were saved;that the ark was coated within and without with bitu-men ; that, by Divine direction, the fowl of the air andthe beasts of the fields were gathered into the ark ofsafety; that the rain descended in floods and submergedthe earth; that three several times a bird was sent outto report whether the waters had subsided ; that the arkrested on a mountain; and that Noah, having been somiraculously delivered, built an altar, and offered thereona sacrifice to God. Thus as to all the essential facts touching the Delugethere is remarkable agreement; there are, however,pointsof difference which are interesting to observe. There i

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