ingaway from the tower in our Fig. 29. See also Layard, Monuments, 2nd series,plates 18 and 21. Towns and their Defences. /d their series of military pictures can be named in which they donot appear, and they are by no means the heavy and clumsy carsnow used in some parts both of European and… … Fig. 30.—An attack by escalade ; from Layard. tires of beaten steel, but the felloes of their wheels are light andgraceful enough to prove that the roads of those times werebetter than anything the Mesopotamia of to-day can show.The spokes, which seem to have been fitted with great care andnicety,…
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