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6onth*east, or highest angle, 141 feet. The weslef® ^ 
which is the least elevated, is the most interesting»^^^(K 
count of the appearance of building it presents, 
summit of it appears a low wall, with interruptions, , 
unbumt bricks, mixed up with chopped straw or ree^ ’ 
cemented with clay-mortar' of great thickness, 
tween every layer a layer of reeds : and on lire 
are also some vestiges of a similar constraction. Tb® 
west angle is crowned by something like a turret, or fjf 
the other angles are in a less perfect state; but 
ginally have been ornamented in a similar roauu®^^ it^ 
western face is lowest and easiest of ascent, thenorin®^l,jti 
most difficult. All are worn into furrows by tire " 
and in some places, where several channels of ra'^ V 
united together, these furrows are of great depth, '. 
covered with heaps of rubbish, in digging into 
trate a considerable way into the mound, i ne ■ 
covered with heaps of rubbish, in digging into ^ 
which, layers of broken burnt brick, cemented with 
are discovered, and whole bricks, witli inscriptions pj’ 
are here and there found ; the whole is covered 
merable fragments of pottery, brick, bitumen. 
the whole is covered 
vitrified brick, or scoria, and even shells, bits of , , 
mother of pearl." he^y 
Mr. Rich having now finished his observations on 
of the east bank of the Euphrates, enters upon 
tion of what, on the opposite west bank, have been ' 
travellers supposed, (and their suppositions 
adopted by Major Rennel,) to be tlie remains of ’ ^ - 
city. Those, however, which Mr. Rich describ®^^ 
the most trifling kind, scarcely exceeding one 
in extent, and wholly consisting of two or three in**^ 
mounds of earth, overgrown with rank grass. Th 
too being marshy, he doubts the possibility of 
been any buildings of considerable magnitude 
that spot, and, much less, buildings of the ^fitit^'t 
dimensions of those described by the classical ^ jjii^ 
anti(]uiiy. He then opens to our view a new' 
unexplored remain of ancient grandeur, in tl’® j 
passage : 
*' Rut. although there are not any ruins in the ' 
vicinity of the river, by far the most stupendon j 
prising mass of all the Remains of Babylon is 
