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an Indian acacia yield-| ren _ fog a bard timber used for railway ihepers. ak | A medicinal and edible gum is obtained} 1 from it. d. BABYLON. (1) The Shinar and Chal-| acc dea of the Bible, first existed as a emall | rec state to the north of the Persian Gulf. | Na Thence the nation spread along the/ stu rivers Tigris and Euphrates, the seat of | inv government moving in the same direction, | obs until it was finally fixed at Babylon, in| of | _* the eighteenth century, 8.0. For a time, | err the country was ey 0 As syria, but | con Nabopola ar a erted independence, | pre meee 228 I She reign of his son, dis N. Babylon reached the| wit senith of its power. In tho year 538 D.c., | mo: ae con geared by Cyrus, and from that | the _ time its history was merged in that of | gol Persia. (2) The capital of the former! sec _ ~ Was built on both banks of the Euphrates.| 5 It is said to have covered an area of 200 | Mea _ Square miles. and to have been surrounded} E eee seen ta heelehs, and more then sun | feet in thickne , strengthened with | retz _ 250 towers, and pierced by 100 gates of} & _ bra . Its walls and hanging gardens/ reac _ Were accounted among the seven wonders |/in of the world. ey she name was frequeciiy min to poms by the oy Christians,| B is now sometimes used for any large | SO} [s. 60]