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Excerpt from The Ancient History, Vol. 2 of 4: Containing the History of the Egyptians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Medes, Lydians, Carthaginians, Persians, Macedonians, the Seleucidae in Syria, and Parthians The southern district, called the land of Shinar, or Baby Ion, Gen. X. 10; xi. 2; the land of Nimrod, Mic. V. 6; and Babylonia, by the Greek and Latin writers, - reached from the wall of Media, or contracted the Space between the two rivers, about 300 miles down to the Persian Gulf, never exceeding four-score miles in breadth. 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.