Excerpt from Asshur and the Land of Nimrod: Being an Account of the Discoveries Made in the Ancient Ruins of Nineveh, Asshur, Sepharvaim, Calah, Babylon, Borsippa, Cuthah, and Van IN submitting to my readers the following account of my travels in Biblical lands, and of my Assyrian and Babylonian discoveries, I'do so with diflidence, feeling that it is an nu worthy sequel to the fascinating and interesting narratives of my late lamented friend, Sir Austen Henry Layard, which are of wide-world reputation. I am emboldened, however, by the fact that it was his fond desire that I should lay before the world the record of my humble contribution to that branch of learning in connection with ancient history, both sacred and profane. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.