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When we passed that way on our journey from Busrah to Baghdad, the land was flooded by the spring rains, so we saw nothing of the beauties of Paradise.

From Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence amongst the Women of the East by Hume-Griffith, A.

At Busrah, there is also a dispensary, and here too the gospel is sold and preached and lived before the people.

From Topsy-Turvy Land Arabia Pictured for Children by Zwemer, Samuel Marinus

In one of the pictures you see the fire wood market at Busrah.

From Topsy-Turvy Land Arabia Pictured for Children by Zwemer, Samuel Marinus

Busrah, or Bassorah, bulls and lions shipped to, down the Tigris, 52.

From Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria by Ragozin, Zénaïde A. (Zénaïde Alexeïevna)

Rose-water: 200 to Arab coast of Persian Gulf, and 1,000 to Koweit, Busrah, and Bagdad.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 by Various