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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.
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