Excerpt from Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels in Asia, From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time, Vol. 3
That vast and varied region, which extends from the Indian Ocean to the Caspian, and from the Euphrates to the mountains and deserts of the Indian frontier, has formed, in all ages, a distinguished seat of Asiatic empire. On the Euphrates were seated those of Babylon and Nineveh, the first which appear to have aimed at the dominion of the world. The seat of the empire of the Great King was transferred eastward to that vast plain which extends from the Persian Gulf to the Caucasian mountains; and the Parthians, in the same position, opposed a limit to the progress of the Roman arms.
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