Nineveh and Babylon; a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, and 1851 (1867)
Layard, Austen Henry, Sir, 1817-1894 · London J. Murray · leaf 355
. |Cll.\i> the sea. The ])ro]ihet Isawh also iiUikIcs to the ships ofthe Chaldivans.^ Iinil>er for ship biiildiiig coiihl have beenlloateil with ease liom the mountains ol Armenia to tlie veryquays of l>abylon, or to her ports at the heacT of the Persian(.ulf. ^^e have seen that… … Terracotta Tablet from Babylon, representing a Dog. But although a coasting trade might have existed alongthe shores of the Persian Gulf and of the ocean as far asIndia, yet a very considerable trade was also carried on byland with the same country through Media, Hyrcania, and * Chap, xliii. 14.…
