Memoir on the Ruins of Babylon |
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Abulfeda appears Arabs Author Babylonian Bagdad bank Benjamin of Tudela Birs Nemroud bitumen Boards breadth brick-work burnt brick called canals cement curious Darius Hystaspes desert Diodorus east eastern Edition elevated embankment Engravings Euphrates feet gate ground heaps of rubbish Heet height Hellah Herodotus Hheimar HISTORY hundred yards HURST illustrated inclosed inclosure Janissaries Kasr Khan Kiahya large Paper layer of reeds LONGMAN mass Memoirs miles mortar Mujelibè naphtha nearly Niebuhr northern OBSERVATIONS original ORME palace Pasha passage piastres Pietro della Valle Plates present Price 21 probably ravine REES remains of Babylon remarkable Rennel resembling river ROBERT SOUTHEY ROBERT WALPOLE Royal ruins of Babylon side spot square stadia stadium Strabo Strabo says summit Susian temple thick Tigris tion tower of Belus town traces travellers Turks unburnt vestiges of building Vols Volumes walls Western face whole بن مزيد