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Title: The history of Herodotus. A new English version, ed. with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information; and embodying the chief results, historical and ethnographical, which have been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical discovery
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Herodotus Rawlinson, George, 1812-1902 Rawlinson, Henry Creswicke, Sir, 1810-1895 Wilkinson, John Gardner, Sir, 1797-1875
Subjects: History, Ancient
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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miles. Even this sjiace is (according to modern notions)enormous, being five or six times the size of London. The aiitho-rity, however, upon which it rests is of great weight and import-ance; for one cannot but suppose that accurate measurementswould be made by the Greeks upon their conquest of the city.* It ^ I am gi-eatly indebted to Captain SelLy \ia\\s had perislied before Alexanders con-fer a copy of his Chart and Memoir, printed qiiest, and therefore that his historians onlyfor the Bombay Government, in 1859, but reported a tradition. But it is very xmhkelynot (1 believe) as yet published. that they could have altogether disappearei.! ® Book i. ch. 178. so early. And Abydeniis expressly states ^ For the details see note ^ on the above- that the wall of Nebuehadnezzai• continued named chapter. to Alexanders time. (See vol. i. Essay viii. •• The only argument that can be urged p. 419, § 13, note .)with any eflect against this, is that the Essay ΠΙ. KUINS OF BABYLON. 473
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Chart of the Iluins of Habylon. 171 PRESENT STATE OF THE RUINS. Aw. ))οοκ ΙΙί. has, therefore, been usual to accept the statement, and to suppo.sethat a wall of great height* surrounded an area of the size indicated,and that the name liabylon attached in popular parlance to theentire space within the rampart. Of course, however, if the wallAvas of this extent, only a small proportion of the ground Avitliin itcan have been covered with buildings. The Iabylou thus describedwas not a town, but a great fortified district very partially builtupon, and containing within it not only gardens and parks, butnumerous fields and (jrchards.* 3. Of the great wall enclosing this space, it is agreed by almostall travellers that not a vestige remains.^ It has been destroyed byquarrying, or has sunk into the ditch from which it arose ;* andtliero is no possibility of even determining its position, unless bythe merest conjecture. The earliest of the Mesopotamian explorers imagined that it included

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