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dimensions above 
WONDERS OF ART. 
described were formed. 
At 
regular distances on them, watch towers were c 
below they- were divided and adorned with a hundr 
gates of brass. , 
In the centre of each of the grand divisions 
a stupendous public fabric was erected. In one 
side) stood the temple of Belus j and in the other, 
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division) in a large and strongly fortified inclosure, 
palace, intended, doubtless, for defence as well as 
ment. The temple of Belus was a square pile, 
of the extent of two furlongs. The tower 
centre was a furlong in breadth, and as much in j 
latter of which (taking the furlong at only 500 fc® 
mous, being higher, by 20 feet, than the great p; 
Memphis, whose altitude was taken by Greaves, 
tower, as a base, seven other lofty towers were 
tower, as a base, seven other lofty towers ^ 
tegular succession ; and the whole was erowned, ,i 
to Diodorus, with a brazen statue of the good P 
feet high ! The palace, intended also as a j 
erected on an area a mile and a half 
surrounded with three vast circular walls, 'vhi . 
surrounueu wim inrce vast circular waiia, .(a |,i> 
are informed by Diodorus Siculus, were ornatn®^ 
culptured animals resembling life, richly 
natural colours on the bricks of which they 
This may be 
posed, and afterwards lurnt in. iiu» uj»/ - 
as nearly the earliest specimen of enamellit^S 
Indeed, it was scarcely possible for a nation, 
so well practised in the burning of bricks 
vitreous hardness, to have been ignorant of tb' 
and that they could also engrave upon Ibctf ' ^ 
(were such evidence wanting) from the up |1P 
day sculptured upon those that have been ii’ ^ 
brought to Europe, two of which are 
British Museum. On the far-famed hanging ^ 
the subterraneous vault or tunnel constructe 
rarais, or Nitoeris, or the founder of Babylon, ^ 
tltAfa 1C l-vr\ viAr*AccifTr frt ?1C (^VPTV 
was, there is no necessity to dilate, as every t* ji)i 
except what the idle fancy of travellers ba^ .p f' 
must long since have disappeared ; but such, ‘ 
outline, was the mighty barylon ! 
Mr. Rich, whose residence at the court ot 
the powerful protection of the Pacha, affotd 
