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done before, the remains of the wall on the hill, and was struck by the 
excellence of its masonry. The stones are cut into regular squares, 
with an alto-relief upon each; and at the section of the lines which 
connect the stones are holes, cut at regular intervals, the purposes of 
which we could not divine. They might, however, lead to the conjec¬ 
ture that these walls, like those of Ecbatana, were ornamented; and 
that in the holes now seen upon them were affixed plates of metal, in 
the same manner as plates of silver and of gold must have been affixed 
to the two innermost walls of that city.^ 
The whole of the remains at Morghaub, namely, the tomb, the co¬ 
lumns and pilasters, the sculpture, the arrow-headed inscriptions, the 
fire-temple, and the wall on the hill, are monuments which attest 
the site of some considerable city; and furnish a subject, the investi¬ 
gation of which would be well worthy the labours of an antiquary. 
Morghaub, at this season, presents a much more agreeable aspect 
tlian when I passed it before in the winter; the hills around it being 
Herodotus, Clio, xcviii, 
