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Show Asphalt on Streets of Babylon. That asphalt was known to tho ancients an-cients Is a well attested fact, Its uso as a binder for masonry In Ilabylon being In point, but of Its uso other than this wo know nothing. Strabo tells us that as early ns 2000 II. C the streets of Ilabylon woro paved, and so, too, presumably wero the great roads leading out from tho ninny gates of that city Ilabylon was situated In tho alluvial plain of Mesopotamia, Meso-potamia, and Its building material was I almost entirely clay, either ns such j or In tho form of bricks 1 It scorns rnther doubtful that theso latter wero used to pavo the streets at that early date. Asphalt wns nbun-, nbun-, dant and much used In building opor-, opor-, atlona, nnd It does not som Improbable Improb-able that It wns utilized to Improve tho streets. Dr. E. W. Gudgr In Scl-,euct. |