'Narrative of a Residence in Koordistan, and on the Site of Ancient Nineveh; with Journal of a Voyage down the Tigris to Bagdad and an Account of a Visit to Shirauz and Persepolis.' [‎51] (78/450)

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IV - CH. XIV.] OUR NAMES CUT IN THE ROCK. 51
m § straight ravine, and examined the ravine itself to its
0 ' south termination, which is north of the south-east angle
or of the inclosure. Here also the sides exhibit a great
'(Is, quantity of solid conglomeration. The spot is called
t is by the natives Abdal Kaiasi, or the Abdal or Der-
lilt. vish Rock.
►ish We now returned to rest at Thisbe's well; and the
loil, captain amused himself with cutting our names on
(1 a its walls. Some traveller in after times, when our
ime remembrance has long been swept away by the
:o a torrent of time, and the meanest of man's works
)nie only remain, may wonder, on reading the name of
)le(l Mary Rich, who the adventurous female was who
iers had visited the ruins of Nineveh. He will not be
dis- aware that, had her name been inscribed at every
up spot she had visited in the course of her weary pil-
I grimage, it would be found in places compared with
,s I which Mousul is the centre of civilization,
the ' n ext went to examine the ravine east of the arc,
s as fr om which it is separated by a mound or elevation
ate- three hundred and ninety-five feet broad in front of
at well, and of no great height. The Kermelis
the roa( l P as ses over, and almost obliterates it. Farther
lore noitli the separation mound is much higher, probably
^our twenty-five feet high, and growing narrower at the
wd t0 P- TIle or ravine itself, is one hundred and
the st ^ 1 nt y-^o feet broad, and is bounded on the east by
bed another mound, the highest of all, and much higher
towards the ditch; the level of the country being
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