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Show It haa.aJways beeu somewhat of. a mystery why such; oacd- great popu- ' lous-atid. flourishing' o'tties- as,- B-iby--lpn and'N-iuevah bavaso entirely disappeared dis-appeared that, nothing, but weed giown ruins remain to prove that they? aver existed. . Inevitable changea- in trade routes and Hues of l travel, says anexcliauge, frequently oausa a city lo lose its oommeicial standiDgand to shrink in population, but they do not pause it to entirely disappear from-lhe Jtice of the earth. But the researches of Dr. Delitzsbthe eminent Germaa explorer and scientist, probably solves-tJae solves-tJae mystery. Ho says that the average aver-age summer noonday, temperature in the Bibylonian empire was 12:2 and-sometimes and-sometimes 149.. With this intense heat flies,, mof-quitoea and other insects in-sects were innumerable, and also dis-eases dis-eases of ttll kinds were pievalent. Knowing, as we do,. the close rela-' rela-' tion betvveeu mcr-quitoes, house flies and other irect3 with disease aud Spidaicice, e.r.dlhat no atteati'ju was paid to sanitation, i: is reasonable to suppose that seme great plague, like that whichi destroyed Seuuacaerib's ttr qjts swept away the populations of many an acieat city. In siugular contrast to the lack.of, cleanliness and sanitation by ancient oriental - nations were the strict sanitary laws of Moses-the Moses-the observance of which has made the Jews pr.overbial for their, immunity trom many, diseases; and) for. their geneial good, health. |