Jenks's Portland Gazette

From the Newburyport Herald.

At our request the Authors of the Gazetteer of the Eastern Continent having consented to our publishing some specimens of the work, we have received from the principal Compiler at Byfield, a number of articles which we shall present to our readers, as we have opportunity, and doubt not they will be highly acceptable—we begin with

NINEVEH,

Once the capital of the Assyrian empire.

It was 60 miles in circumference. In grandeur surpassed all other cities of the world.

Yet Nahum foretold that "The Lord would make an utter end thereof: he will make an utter end. affliction shall not rise up a second time." In union with this Zephaniah says,

"The Lord will make Nineveh a desolation—dry like a wilderness—desolation shall be in her thresholds,"

What probability was there that such a city whose walls were 100 feet in height, so wide that three chariots might pass abreast, strengthened by 1500 towers, 200 feet high, should be so utterly destroyed; Yet all has actually taken place; so fatal is the divine threatening; so true every syllable of prophecy. Lucian, a native of that neighborhood, in the second century after Christ, says, Nineveh was utterly perished; no footsteps remaining." Benjamin, a Jew, who was there in the twelfth century, says Nineveh is laid waste; yet many streets and castles are to be seen." Another who was there in 1330 asserts that "Nineveh is totally laid waste, but by the ruins it appears to have been the greatest city in the world." Thevenot, in the seventeenth century, tells us—"Some of its ruins of great extent are to be seen even to this day." Tavernier says that Nineveh is now only a heap of rubbish "—Its ruins are ruined" God has made "an utter end of her glory"