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View of the walls of Baghdad. Down to the 19th century, Baghdad was often, yet erroneously, identified with ancient Babylon. Recent excavations showed, however, that Babylon stood on the opposite shore of Tigres river.

Map of Moscow.

Double canoe widely used by the Cossacks of Don river.

Map of Novocherkassk, capital of the Cossacks of Don river.

View of Novocherkassk, capital of the Cossacks of Don river.

Cossacks of Novocherkassk enjoying their bath in the Don during the flood season.

Ancient tombs on Don river near the Black Sea, Russia.

Map of the Don-Volga canal. Initially envisioned by the Ottomans and later by the Russians, the canal, which connects the Sea of Azov to the Caspian Sea was only completed in 1950.

Ruins of Greek Orthodox monastery at Chatyr-Dan mountain range near Simferopol, Crimea.

Coin of ancient Borysthenes or Pontic Olbia, a city in Sarmatia (historical region west of the Caspian Sea), near the mouth of Dnieper river.

Landscape at the vale of Tempi, Thessaly.

Topographic map of the vale of Tempi, Thessaly.

Map of Timișoara, Romania.

The Nilometer, square cistern with a marble column, used to measure the levels o the Nile in Egypt.

A raft crosses Tigres river at Mosul, Irak.

Death of an Indian fakir on the shores of Ganges river.

View of Verona in Italy.

Map of the mouth of Neretva river, Croatia.

35. Linden tree outside the main entrance to the castle of the Hague. 36. The owner of the inn the author stayed at during his visit to the Hague. 37. Channel at the Rhine Delta, the Hague. 38. Plan of palace on the Rhine, at Hammerstein (today Neuwied), Germany