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Title: Nineveh and Babylon : a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, & 1851
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Layard, Austen Henry, Sir, 1817-1894
Subjects: Nineveh (Extinct city) Babylon (Extinct city) Middle East -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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tes, coffee, and com, and con-tains a few common Manchester goods and English cutleryand hardware. The Euphrates flows through the town, andis about two hundred yards wide and fifteen feet deep; anoble stream, with a gentle current, admirably fitted forsteam navigation. The houses, chiefly built of bricks taken from the ruinsof ancient Babylon,are small and mean.Around the town, andabove and below itfor some miles, aregroves of palm trees,forming a broad belton both sides of theriver. In the plainbeyond them a few^:^ canals bear water toplots cultivated withwheat, barley, andrice. The ruins of Ba-bylon have been sofrequently described,that I prefer givinga general sketch ofthem to entering intoaccurate details ofmeasurements anddistances ; at thesame time referringmy reader to the ac-companying plan,which will enable liim to understand the position of theprincipal mounds. The road from Baghdad to Hillah crosses, near the villageof Mohawill. a wide and deej) canal. On its southern bank
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Plan of Part of the Ruins of Babylon on the EasternIank of the Euphrates. XL) MOUNDS NEAR BABEL. 275 is a line of eartlien ramparts, which are generally believedto be the most northern remains of the ancient city ofBabylon. From their summit the traveller scans a bound-less plain, through which winds the Euphrates, with its darkbelt of evergreen palms. Rising in the distance, high aboveall surrounding objects, is the one square mound, in formand size more like a natural hill than the work of menshands. This is the first great ruin to the east of the river,and the Arab names it Babel. The traveller, before reaching this ruin, still about fourmiles distant, follows a beaten track winding amidst lowmounds, and crossing the embankments of canals long sincedry. Some have here traced the lines of the streets, and thedivisions between the inhabited quarters of ancient Babylon.They believe them to correspond with the descriptions ofancient authors, who declare that the city was divided intoa

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