Ninevah is utterly demolished, so that it is difficult to know where it stood, yonder is Babylon, beautified with so many Towers, fortified with so great a Wall, it will shortly be no more, and in no better condition than Ninevah Lucian's Charon.

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ANCIENT AND MODERN;

FROM

THE EARLIEST RECORDS OF TIME,

TO THE

GENERAL PEACE OF 1801.

IN TWENTY-FIVE VOLUMES.

Factorum est copia nobis.

Res gesta regumque, ducumque, et tristia bella.

BY WILLIAM MAVOR, LL.D.

VICAR OF HURLEY, IN BERKSHIRE, AND CHAPLAIN TO THE EARL OF DUMFRIES.