Transcriber’s Note: As a result of editorial shortcomings in the original,some reference letters in the text don’t have matching entries in thereference-lists, and vice versa.
A comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: edited, with the assistance of a distinguished board of advisers and contributors, by
HENRY SMITH WILLIAMS, LL.D.
IN TWENTY-FIVE VOLUMES VOLUME II—ISRAEL, INDIA, PERSIA, PHOENICIA, MINOR NATIONS OF WESTERN ASIA