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Scientific American, Vol. 94, No. 15 (1906) (1906)

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string. when the river was abnor- An exceedingly interesting mally high. The effect of form of tablet was that the current aided by the given to the Babylonian erosion of the sediment letter of 2400 B. C. and The tablet has Less Tag of Corners begin School-boy exercise Spherical Plano-convex held… … feet. The daily increase revealed the _ original The letter shows in depth varies of form of the tablets, but course according to the has also assisted in ex- LETTER WRITING FIVE THOUSAND YEARS AGO. quantity coming down plaining the develop- the river, but it has ment of the cuneiform been as high…

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