NOMADIC AND ST ATI ON AR Y SEMITES. 133 and saw with envious eyes the prosperous establishments of their predecessors. This occasioned frequent contests ; and as fortune favoured sometimes one party and some- times the other, and peace was incessantly troubled with- out any advantage to either, the… … View of Primitive Southern Syrian House. — Fig. 46. territory of Upper Media could not support so many families, a great expedition should be organised, to occupy the lands on the south-east, beyond the mountains, and to drive away the shepherds, since they had always to dread their depredations.
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