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desolation which burned deep in its foetid, rush-strewn hosom, every trace of the foriner land of verare, with its wealth of truite, and towers, and nodding dels

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tion in there, half nomadies. The new Baghdad is not worthy of the old: Hi is no representativy of Babylon, Kerbalis and Nedict, Shishuition are there, nO: KTO Late villages and small towns að unger- tain intervals. In the south artis new centres which cultivate the dabe pain. The Euphrates has no service of emers aalla Turkish service ran to Baglidad before the war and did its best

to injure a British one: a service rang to Ahwaz The Shatt-el-Arab, a magi- urah, its seaport, boats easily passed. ficent natural waterway, has two de vast of the Shaar-el-Hays Canul summing Moliamera. Is short the enement The present „course of the Tigris. kreps | Prepit "- riverine sports. Bural Band)

Hutumurs, where Townshend apologist for Stamboul cannds claim that, at his gallant men wrote a glorious page modera British history, in an anciens before the Great Swamp area existed, the land. This was indeed the original coure deposit of it and its slow movements in the centuries have thus brought back

in Mesopotamia at least, the Ourzanli Tark Empire has been for the people's the finest lands. in all six has slipped good. Under its wanton' misrale one of back almost to the period of the earliest history, when primitive man first found

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BY BABYLONIAN WATERS.dered the site of annient Paradise), two with pains groves with shrimen, withs hundred and #ity miles below Bagixlad, pustore. lands of exceeding wealth, with the Tigris and Euphiste pow unito.it Wastern, Gate by the kneeling plasm Foam himdred pears ago (when the Tigris for camal, thanagh which corne and went. Bowed about a hundred miles mouth of [the Trve-long day the wares of Me Baghdad), it turned of towards Wasit, potamia, of Persis and of Tnd. When The great phip of Mewpotamia is by a channel known as the Shatt-of-Wayy, the Abbasid denasty changed to the usually considered to be naturally divided Sixty naites below Wasit its waters spread Omayyad, le was fitting than a city of into two portions, the northern part con.oyor the land forming the Great Sump oriental delight, sinakd muck the event, sisting of a mighty stretch of land almost two hundred miles long and teaching to so arose Baghdad, which knew Harun-st Harah The Euphrat ran into the Kashid as it stretched its opulent palaore enciced by the waters of the Euphrates Great Swamp south of Kufa, for that and gardens by Tigris" banks. and Tigris and the southern she ancient was the region of its main diannel, whils Such is the story of anelent Babylonia Babylonia. The upper portion of this the stream which doww pa Hilah, dear and its engrossing waters. Without its 383 territory consista of pósters land and the site of ancient Babylon, was then an systain of canals for irrigation it would Stony plains which gradually rise, towards irrigation canal, the Nahr Sura. Haum always have been a desolate mnd data

of wild birds, and wildder, preditary man, with them it was the greatest world gar- the north, in rolling hills nati!, the only the stifing sands of the dessert borneden thas a jar and prosperous popula terraced earthy, pushes up to meet then the bat-wings of storm and whichwindtion,eld know. How has is fared under wild, mystic mountain of Armenia: The woke the ones at that scene of atter the rule of the Turks? A meagre popula boundary between the upper and lower portions of the fawinating plain is a line taked from about the city of Tekrit, upon the Tigris, to the greas sottheen band of the Euphrates, just below Anah. Theru

Along the northeris edge of this lever is, livever, a mon interesting fins of hated swamp rau à line of connected Iagoons whose waters men navigated, denurkation, for, just south of it, where Pussing frees the Tirls through them to in the fourth, rentary began the famous Kurnah where the great swamp drained irrigating trenely of King Sapor II, there out by a canal, into the bond we of raps & very ancient castline which the Shutt-el-aruh from "Baghdad to ne hundreds of miles idland. Between this early emasfiras and the Persian Gulf, the open avenue to the inland East, lien (a vaak area of "alluvial" deposit, wine eastern boundary lies inside, Persia elf, while its western limits the great, Syrian desert.

constantly thrusting forwag towards the banks of the Euphrates its whifting samuls, with which the storm the river to its ancient channel. The it and scratched seeds into its textile winds of the wilderness seek to match, Great Swanp itself was the direct result and to master the console stoffeer of the river dykes. A first warding went practically unheeded: then many to beat down their impetus codtan namous "volume of water through This great stretch of alluvial déposit the inelting of fur Armenian shows, rushed six times the size of the Nils delta, and head-tone down a bit the dykes of is the richest gift of nature to the whole Euphrates and Tigris in hundreds of Asiatic continent. Facli

year this places, making a permanent swamp. encrinou, delta stretches firther into the This historic lesson has been quite lost

A COVET OF DIRECTORS. Persisi Gulf, for it adds annually same upon the Turk through sheer neglect

Hon. Mr. & H. Dodwell,,--Chairman, feet its whole coast-line. It precautions the ratins Irak province

Hint: Mr. Ancient Babylonia is Eke the_lower_fixnon-rendered)-Hable-to-inundation; in

P. H. Holyoak-Deputy Chairman "HONGKONG HOTEL. portion of a gigantic leaf: the southern 1933 the irrage at Musseyib burnt.

Hon. Mr.

(G.T.M. Pdzins, Esq. courses of the Euphrates, Tigris and causing the lower bed of the Euphrates to Miss A: G. Anderson Lauritsen

Mr. G. E. Anderson Mr and Mr.

Anton, Ics Gubbar, Esq. F.C. Batcher, Esq. - [htt Kaz are the main veins; there is an run dry for une hundred and fifty miles. Mr Geo. 8. Arcbbutte G. Guidon-A. FL. Compton, Esq. E. V.D. Part. Esq. interlacing network of lower stramthe whole enormous volume of water Mr B. Murray Bain Lavallee

W. L. Pattanden, Esq. some independent, some forede to dis-Howing down the Hindiye Canal, to Mr J.. EFS. Mr and Mrs J. J.

OHIEF MANAGER. harga tarir waters into the main reins Sarpara. The dam on the Euphrates Mr J. Faring Mr G. Little

Leiria Barbara by the silt which blacks their are to which regulates the few of the virus, is Mr. J. W. Laeseken Mr 9. Longfeld

Hongkong-NJ. STABB, Esq. the Persian Gulf. The Shatt-el-arab, habitually kepp out of repair, so that the Miss de Basagotai Capt. H.P. Longland which gathers all these waters into its volume of water passing down grows con- Mr and Mrs H. A. Mr G. Ludin brond streng, is the stalk. The area of tintally stronger and deeper. During dry

Faxter river delt is influenced by the course weather part of the Euphrates at times J. Baxter and strength of ita formative rivers: where runs dry in its bed, and so the date palms 3. Bobarfeld courses are swift, channels are usually below Hillah, are dying for want of Mrs E. B. Bellion deep and little is given to the banks the irrigation; along the river bank whole Mr C. D. J. Bell rivers pass; hence there is a greas, piling stretches of land have gone out of 3r R... Birbeck up of alluvia at the mouths of the rivers extivation.

Mr J. W Blair, and their deltas grow

rs EL. B. BorgersenMr H. E. Maslin win. The The story of men, in this engros 0. T. Foxwell Mr A. F. McKenns Euphrates gives little to its banks; the stretch of prolife, aliavial land, is for Me and Mrs. L. Mr H. van Maines Tigris and its mang norther feeders stranger than mere romance. One

Bouet

Mr. J. give less, line its southem feeders, issuing teric day there, came into this swampy Mr C. Brown

P. Melenico Mr.J. Merecki

level, are kinder to the wayside warth, from mountain passes at a much lower wilderness, about the lower reaches of Capt & Mrs Branch Me 3. Neabrik

Mr.H. Boylan Mr A. R. Moulder the Euphrates and Tigris," a few brave Mr W. G. Browell Mr J. B. Nicolson. The Harm itself is a gift of the anciens adventurous souls. They seeded the mud Mr J. E. B. Brunn Miss L. E. Odenwald Persians to the Shatt-el-arab, and is the dats; they-dry-rough-channels with which Mr. A. Calderan Mr JR. Deare only navigable river of Persia. It's most to drain and to irrigate. They had the Mr & Mrs CarpmeelCapt. and Mrs L

MrE AV Capern Oldman ancient outlet is acy des bnta partióne touch of Midas; the mother earth Mr. Cheers

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making ancient Babylonia the great amazing wealth. This people, a blend Mr J.D. Courtney ReynoldsPORATION. Rules may be obtained on THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE:

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of its watera flow onward to the Persian they tilled an assiduously responded Mrs C. W. Clifford Mr O, H. v. Otterloo Gulf, parallel with the Shatt-el-arab, better even than the great loads of Miss E. M. Clifford Miss R.: Pencilla keeping within Persian territory. In the Canada do to the fall of rich harvests: Mr D. C. G. Clifford Mr PC Potts remote past, however, most of the waters she gave them her kindly fruits in mur. Mrs H R. Plunkett-Miss M. Rasmussen of the Barun were diverted through the vellous abundance. In the mud. Sata KrF. W. Collins Miss F› Fear Haftar Canal into the Shatt-el-anh, thus they toiled, turning pristing poverty into Mr J. J. Connell Bir and Mrs H.

The ing of industry and nomadis daring, is Mr and Mrs E F: Mr IL M. Richards

Cox and infant Capt. A. Robinson only way, to-day, to avoid using the course of time advanced a stream of Mr W. B. Davenport Mrs M. 8. da Rocks the minimum monthly balance at 31 water way of the Shatt-el-arab, would be humanity up the two rivers, the natural Mr J. P. Davie Mr CH 8chwab

PER CENT. per annum. Depositors for Persia to blast the rocks of the Ahwaz way of progres Ep to the very high- Mr & Mrs A. Dekkerr C. S. Sheffield rapids, and to dredge and embark the lands of Snowy Arraecia they went.

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nd child Shiner and M: P. D. GI: Gain Bahmeshir, branch of the river. Having strewing their victorious way with a long Mr M. Ganjoin

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FIXED DEPOSIT at 4 PER CENT Persian traffic. Stamboni has thoughtfully baked and and now of stately stone and Mr and Ms Gilman Capt. E. B. Simons built fortifications upon the Shatt-el-arab, scented cedar. Asehur knew them and Mr.V. Goulbourn Mrs M. Blade shack-handed compliment which is not Nineveh. Southwards on the Euphrates Capt. T. F. Hall

Mr & Mrs J. Gould Miss Vaughan Smith lost upon the people they threaten...

Mr and Mrs A. M. theyupraised mighty Babylon,

Mr and Mrs W. A Bolomon era The physical conditions of ancient Centuries might come and go, but in Hannibal

Mr and Mrs P. AN Babylonia, the province of Irak, were all the fair lands of Babylonia pro- Mr J. Gordon

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Solomona different in the middle ages, to what they perity abode securely: Ctesiphon, duet Mr G

Mr.A. WP. Spiers Harper

Mr J. Stalker M-D. Hewitt The wenderful irrigation city of the province and winter capital. system, by means of which the earlier of the Sumanian kings, arose, The Arabe | Ira A. E. Hodgins Mr.A. W. van der | Kaliphas made this entire province a real founded cities; there too; Kuia, rich in Hodgson Taylor

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Mr & Mrs Herbert Garden of Aden, was destroyed by the fields of sugar and cotton, with mighty W.E.Hoogewed children

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