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AMUSING CHRONICLE,

A REPOSITORY FOR

MISCELLANEOUS LITERATURE:

CONSISTING OF

Interesting Essays

PROSE AND VERSE.

WITH EXTRACTS

FROM SCARCE AND EXPENSIVE WORKS

VOL. II.

FROM JANUARY 1, TO MAY 1, INCLUSIVE.

WITH OUTLINE PLATES.

LONDON:

Pruled by GEORGE STOBBS, No. 1, Catherine Street Strand; and

PUBLISHED AT NO. 6, GILBERT'S PASSAGE,

PORTUGAL STREET.

1817.

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AMUSING CHRONICLE, CHRONICLE,

a Weekly Repository for

MISCELLANEOUS LITERATURE.

No. XVI.]

JANUARY 4, 1817.

[VOL. II

Price only Four Pence.

TO THE FRIENDS OF LITERATURE.

In the last Number of the first Volume of "THE AMUSING CHRONI, CLE," we informed our Readers that this weekly Publication, containing not less than sixteen pages octavo, would continue to be published at Four-pence each Number; and when our Readers recollect that this Work was undertaken at a time of general distress, with an humble desire to assist in reviving Trade, not only consists of extracts from scarce and valuable books, but "Original Essays,” which have been gra-tuitously furnished by gentlemen of acknowledged literary ability. The price being low, we the more feel ourselves entitled to the kind recommendation of our friends. The number of copies sold at present has as yet scarcely paid the expences; but as the sale encreases, we will endea-. vour by encreasing the quantity of matter, to evince to our friends that our desire is to furnish the Public an interesting work at a moderate price, with a reasonable profit to ourselves.

A Print of Miss F, DENNETT, as Columbine, in the Blind Beggar of
Bethnal Green, accompanies this Number,

THE RUINS OF BABYLON.

FROM the accounts of modern travellers," says Mr. Rich, I had expected to have found on the site of Babylon more, and Jess, than I actually did: less, because I could have formed no conception of the prodigious extent of the whole ruins, or of the size, solidity, and perfect state of some of the parts of them: and more, because I thought that I should have distinguished some traces, however imperfect, of many of the principal structures of Babylon. I imagined I should have said, Here were the walls; and such must have been the extent of the area. There stood the palace; and this most assuredly was the tower of BeJus. I was completely deceived: instead of a few insulated mounds, I found the whole face of the country covered with

Macpherson, Printer, Russell Court, Covent Garden.

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