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BURIED CITES AND BIBLE COUNTRIES.
goblets, bars of the precious metals, and other valuable things. Rev. H. G. Tomkins, speaking of these Assyrian sculptured portraits of Jehu and his princes, says they have "strong aquiline features, and that peculiar shrug or quirk of the nostril which gives a shrewd and sinister look to many a Jew of London streets. In drawing one of these familiar faces from the monument, I was ready to believe that it belonged to a lineal ancestor of the London 'Clo' men.' The bag falling down the stooping back deepened this impression."[1]
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BLACK OBELISK.
- ↑ "Journal of the Anthropological Institute," February, 1889.