Discoveries in the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon with travels in Armenia, Kurdistan and the Desert

Abstract

MANY unavoidable delays have prevented the earlier publication of this volume. I Cil.n no longer appeal, as in the preface of my former work, to the indulgence of my readers on the score of complete literary inexperience; but I can express heartfelt gratitude for the kind and generous reception given, both by the press and the public, to my first labors. I will merely add, that the following pages were written at different periods, and amidst numerous interruptions but little favorable to literary occupations. This must be my apology, to a certain extent, for the many defects they contain.