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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt:... at the village of Nebbi Yunis were childish; and although they alleged that I had acted in contravention to the conditions of the finnan, they failed to prove their case, as I have always been most cautious in carrying out my explorations in accordance with the provisions of the Imperial license: but I am sorry to say that the Ottoman Government have often failed to adhere to the strict royal injunctions. The local authorities at Mossul had no more light to stop us from digging at the village of Nebbi Yunis, especially in the houses I had purchased, than at any other spot, though they said that the place in which I wished to dig was sacred. The Ottoman authorities themselves dug there when I was excavating at Koyunjik, adjoining Nebbi Yunis, in 1853; and besides, I never intended to excavate near the Mausoleum of the prophet Jonah, but took care to keep outside the Ottoman excavations which skirted the mosque. Although during the short time I excavated at the village of Nebbi Yunis very little was found to reward me for my anxiety, nevertheless the tradition which is attached to the palace, and the fact of three of the great Assyrian kings having resided there,--namely, Pul, Sennacherib, and Esarhaddon, make me long to try it once more. I feel quite sanguiue that after a short labour in certain parts in that mound, it will reveal to the world important discoveries, as this site must have been in the latter days of Assyrian magnificence the chief seat of royalty. From the annals of Esarhaddon we learn that he had built there a palace, "such as the kings, his fathers, who went before him, had never made," and which he called "the palace of the pleasures of all the year." It is to be hoped that British interest will yet take its former sta...