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G P PUTNAM & C^o NEW YORK.

NORTH-EASTERN FACADE AND GRAND ENTRANCE OF SENNACHERIBS PALACE KOUYUNJIK

Restored from a Sketch by J Fergusson, Esq^re

DISCOVERIES AMONG THE RUINS OF NINEVEH AND BABYLON;

WITH

TRAVELS IN ARMENIA, KURDISTAN, AND THE DESERT: BEING THE RESULT OF A SECOND EXPEDITION UNDERTAKEN FOR THE TRUSTEES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

BY AUSTEN H. LAYARD, M. P. AUTHOR OF “NINEVEH AND ITS REMAINS.”

“For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin; a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.”—Isaiah xxv. 2.

ABRIDGED FROM THE LARGER WORK.

NEW-YORK: G. P. PUTNAM & CO., 10 PARK PLACE. 1853.

Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1853, by GEORGE P. PUTNAM & CO., In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New-York.