Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous (14781220114)

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Title: Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress ..
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910
Subjects: Progress Inventions
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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THE BLACK OBEEISK OF 8HAL-MANESER II., KING OP ASSYRIA. b. c 860-824. (British Museum.)
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THE MOABTTE STONE. ABOUT B. C. 850. (Paris, Museum qfth Louvre.) Monument dedicated to the god Kem6sh by Mesha, king of Moab (2 Kings :: : 4 ft.», to record hisvictory over the Israelite- in tie lays of Ahab, and the restoration of cities and other works whichhe undertook by command of his god. The -ton,., which measures ! ft. L0 in. X 2 ft. X 14; in., andcontains 34lines of inscription in the so-called Phenician character, was found at Dib&n (the BiblicalDibon, Num.21 :30; 32 : 34, etc.), in the land of Moab, by the German, Rev. !■. Klein, in 1868.Unfortunately, soon afterward it was broken in pieces by the Arabs, but aboul two thirds of thefragments were recovered by the Frenchman, Clermont-Ganneau, and it is possible to give a nearlycomplete text of the inscription from the paper impression which was taken before the stone wasbroken. THE RECORDS OF THE PAST 233 illustrations accounts of their achievements in war as well as in the internalimprovements of their empires. Clay,