RUIKS or BABYLOi). 
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detached from the rubbish, is visible from a con- 
^ ® distance, but so surprisingly fresh in its appearance 
only after a minute inspection I was satisfied o 
in reality a Babylonian remain. It consists of se 
and piers, (which fact the cardinal points,) eight 
ihickness, in some places ornamented with niches 
5 “dters, strengthened by pilasters and buttre.sses, bull' 
o«nit brick, (still perfectly clean and sharp,) laid in 
Mu^'^tent, of such tenacity, that those whose business 
given up working, on account of the extreme dif- 
extracting them whole. The tops of these walls 
^ higher. On the out- 
'^7 have in some places been cleared nearly to the 
I >ti 5 || ’iotis ; but the internal spaces, formed by them, are 
'Jii 5 with rubbi.sh, in some parts almost to their summit 
of the wall has been split into three parts, and 
I liu if earthquake ; some detached walls 
*atne kind, standing at difterent distances, show what 
\‘^''\to have been only a small part of the original 
’ indeed, it appears that lire passage in the ravine, 
I" with the wall which crosses its upper end, weits 
'*lil,.|^i6d With it. There are some liollows underneath, in 
i.ij^ ®6veral persons have lost their lives; so that no one 
Venture into them, and their entrances have become 
It "f* rubbish. Near this ruin is a heap ot rub- 
sides of which are curiously streaked by the alter- 
its materials, the chief part of which, it is pro- 
r iti'tk ** unbumt brick, of which I found a small quan- 
\ i ' 'ite neighbourhood ; but no reeds were discoverable in 
'-^'erstices 
S ^ "^‘ile to the north of the Kasr, 
ll.. 'iQi 
or full five miles dis- 
r ify?tn Hella, and gSO yards from the river bank, is the 
nf this series, which has been described by Pietro 
rtitis who determines it to have been the Tower ot 
^Iiit‘,.®n nnintnn prlnnteH hv Rennel. The natives call it 
®P®i°n adopted by Rennel. 
,■ Of, according to the vulgar Arab pronuncktfion 
parts, Mujelibd, meaning ovcrturaed; tliey 
° apply this term to the mounds of the Kasr. 
!j. ii'e 
Df 
meaning ovcrturaed; tliey some- 
to the mounds of the Kasr. It is 
“^long shape, irregular in its height and the measure- 
its sides, which face the cardinal points ; the 
w j " side being 200 yards in length, 'he southern 219 , 
^^rn 182, and the western 136 ; the eleyaUon of the 
