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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. KERKOOK AND ARBELA. Kerkook?Large fortified town?Petroleum and naphtha springs? Petroleum used in the steamers superseded by English coal? The Russians use it on the Caspian?The springs at Hit? Inexhaustible supply?How utilized?Fall of manna at Kerkook?Flights of quails?The Jews?Tomb of Daniel?An enlightened Pasha?Undisciplined zaptiehs?Route northward from Kerkook?Hard fare?Bad horses?Conscripts handcuffed?The Golden Bridge?Busy town?Rafts for transport of grain?Kurdish weapons?A suspicious caravan?Arbela? Perils of the approach at nightfall?A private house?Lost Tribes-?Jews and Nestorians. We stayed at Thawook until four o'clock in the afternoon, and started then for the considerable town of Kerkook, which is distant about thirty miles. We arrived at that important place at eight o'clock in the evening, and went straight to the khan, a curious-looking building of two stories. There is a wide river, or rather river-bed here, similar to that at Thawook, and it is spanned by a long bridge. The town is fortified: a citadel on a low round hill lies a little apart. The streets are very narrow, and even more tortuous than those of the other towns in this country; they are also more dirty and evil smelling. The country around is veryfertile, and is carefully irrigated and turned to good agricultural account. But in the rainy season the river overflows its banks, and the plain is converted into a morass. The numerous petroleum and naphtha springs in the neighbourhood give Kerkook its chief celebrity, and furnish employment for many of its people. The most abundant supply is procured from the hills around, but a good deal is collected on the surface of the water in the ditches and stagnant pools. When refined it is exported to Baghdad, which city is lighted with pe...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780217306805
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 90
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217306802
  • Publisher Date: 10 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 177 gr


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