CHAPTER XXVII.
THE ASSYRIA MISSION.
1849-1860.
Mosul is related to the Syria Mission in language, the written Arabic being essentially the same in both fields; but there is considerable difference in the language of preaching and social intercourse, "Near Mosul, and especially on the east of the Tigris," writes Dr.Leonard Bacon, after his visit to Mosul, "the language is Syriac, or as they there call it, _Fellahi_, the peasant language.
In other districts, Turkish and Koordish are spoken by many nominal Christians.

The people in Mesopotamia are very different from those in Syria.

They are of other sects.

Instead of the Greek Church, the Greek Catholic, and the Maronite, we find, as we travel east of the Euphrates, and especially as we approach the Tigris, the Jacobite, the Syrian Catholic or Romanized Jacobite, the Nestorian (almost exterminated), and the Chaldean or Romanized Nestorian.

And the condition of these sects, as it respects the feeling of strength and pride, is very unlike that of the sects in Syria.