L'-ab, 
tlUlNS OF BABYLOK. 5.59 
'°ut six miles to the south-west of Bella. It is 
Arabs Bus Nimroud, by the Jews, Nebuchad- 
Prison. It is a mound of an oblong figure, the 
■'ilj '^^■tiference of which is seven hundred and sixty-two 
'1 ij' the eastern side it is cloven by a deep furrow, 
more than fifty or sixty feet high ; but at the 
rises in a conical figure to the elevation of one 
^ Of ninety-eight feet ; and on its summit is a solid 
“ri'tk, thirty-seven feet high by twenty-eight in 
i*'! itrg ^'rninishing in thickness to the top, which is broken 
^i’lar, and rent by a large fissure extending through 
. its height. It is perforated by small square holes, 
rhomboids. The fine burnt bricks of tvhkh it 
inscriptions 071 them; and so admirable is the 
s a’l- ''"^rch appears to be lime-mortar, that, though the 
,''ttjy ® m close together that it is difficult to discern what 
I® is between them, it is nearly impossible to extract 
■J* bricks whole. The other parts of the summit ot 
I, >io (j occupied by immense fragments of brick-work, 
fignrc, tumbled together and converted 
I ft *'*' Of masses, as if they had undergone the 
*^he fiercest fire, or been blown up with gun- 
|if'Cnjj 'be layers of the bricks being perfectly discernible, 
1 ^3ot, and one for which I am utterly incapable 
1^' Homing. - 
!i)i **t. n? the Birs are traces of rains to a considerable 
WitK the nortli is the canal which supplies Mesjid 
"'bich was cug .at the cxpence of the 
^^"j®bed Doulah, and called after his country, 
’ **'a I ^ are informed that, fiom the summit of the 
'^0.” ® ®3r morning, the gilt dome of Mesjiid Ali may 
BABYLONIAN BRICKS. 
'.'*hi(;'i^ ®dcieht method of writing was on stone or brick. 
^ tlte earliest example on record, if allowable to 
be adduced that of the two pillars of Seth, 
^^ick and tlie other of stone, said by Josephus to 
!ti|3t(,|.^®*'®cted before the deluge, and to have contained 
iC. antediluvian arts and sciences. However dis- 
\[j®'his 
{jj ®ccount may be, that of the table of stone on 
® decalogue was written by tlie finget of tl>« 
