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following statistical account of the Nestorian churches, clergy, and population, I have been enabled to draw up with the assistance of Mar Shimoon and his late Archdeacon Kash' Auraha. Finding by personal observation in some instances, that the number of families was exaggerated by the Patriarch, I have reduced it one third throughout.

I shall begin with the districts nearest to Mosul.