eful arts and of all mental activities were borne on theirbreath like a fertilizing dust. Among those distant ancestors of1 A. de Candolle, Origine des Plantes cultivées, pp. 285, et. seq. 4oo A History of Art in Chald.-ea and Assyrta. whom we are the direct heirs, those ancestors who have left… … ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. VOL I. P. 155.—It was not only as mortar that bitumen was used. Mr. RASSAMtells us that he found at Abou-Abba (Sippara), in Chaldasa, a chamberpaved with asphalte much in the same fashion as a modern street inLondon or Paris {Proceedings of the Society of Biblical…
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