From Berlin to Bagdad and Babylon

by J. A. Zahm

[521] Op. cit., Bk. I, Chap. 181.

[522] Geography, Bk. XVI, Chap. I, Sec. 5.

[523] Op. cit., p. 196.

[524] Ibid., p. 196.

[525] “Principio Assyrii”—the Chaldeans—“propter planitiem magnitudinemque regionum quos incolebant, cum cœlum ex omni parte patens et apertum intuerentur, trajectiones motusque stellarum observaverunt.” De Divinatione, Lib. I.

[526] Op. cit., Lib. V, Cap. I.

[527] Op. cit., p, 103.

[528] For a description of the ruins of Cuzco and the Great Chimu, as compared with those of Babylon, see Along the Andes and Down the Amazon, Chaps. XIII, XV (by J. A. Zahm, New York, 1911).

[529] The History and Conquests of the Saracens, p. 2 et seq. (by E. A. Freeman, London, 1877).

[530] Babel and Bibel, p. 36, 37 (London, 1903).