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walls and towers; the former being 200 feet in height, 
and fo very broad that three chariots might drive on 
them abreaft; and the latter 200 feet in height, and 1500 
in number; and Strabo allows it to have been much 
larger than Babylon. Diodorus Siculus was, however, 
certainly miftaken, or rather his tranfcribers, as the au¬ 
thors of the Univerfal Hiilory think, in placing Nineveh 
on the Euphrates; fince all hiftorians, as well as geogra¬ 
phers, who fpeak of that city, tell us in exprefs terms 
that it Rood on the Tigris. At the time of Jonah’s mif- 
fion thither, it was fo populous, that it was reckoned to 
contain more than 120,000 perfons who could not dif- 
tinguiih their right hand from their left, (Jonah iv. 11.) 
which is generally explained of young children that had 
not yet attained to the ufe of reafon ; fo that, upon this 
principle, it is computed that the inhabitants of Nineveh 
were then above 600,000 perfons. This city was very 
early noted for wealth, idolatry, and other wickednefs. 
When Jonah the prophet, about A. M. 3142, warned the 
inhabitants, that, if they did not repent, they fliould be 
deftroyed within forty days, they were mightily affe&ed ; 
a Fa ft of three days was appointed, and they cried loudly 
to God for the preventing of this ftroke. He heard their 
prayers, and long delayed their ruin. 
Ufher, Rollin, and others, will have Nineveh to have 
been deftroyed under one Sardanapalus, the foil of Pul, 
by Arbaces the Mede, and Belefis the Chaldean. But no 
ancient author mentions a double deftrudlion of Nineveh ; 
and the relations of its deftru£lion, though by different 
authors referred to different times, and placed under 
kings of a different name, are fo fimilar, that we cannot 
but fuppofe they relate to the fame event. Indeed, the 
Scripture exprefsly declares, that Nineveh’s ruin would 
be fo complete as to need no repetition. The kings of 
Aflyria had collected into it the moll of the wealth of the 
eaft, (Nah. ii. 9, 12.) Nahum defcribes the ruin of Nine¬ 
veh in the molt graphical manner: that the rivers fliould 
break through the walls, (chap. i. 8. ii. 6.) that their 
troops and inhabitants fliould be quite difpirited, (chap, 
iii. 13.) and feized in their drunkennefs, (chap. i. 10. iii. 
11. 18.) their allies fhould defert them, or their mer¬ 
chants forfake the city, (chap. iii. 16.) and their own 
officers, through drunkennefs or ftupidity, defert their 
flation, (ver. 17.) and the Medes and Chaldeans ride 
with torches through the city in the night, (ii. 3, 4.) 
The Medes and Perfians had feveral times laid liege 
to this city, and were diverted by various accidents ; 
but, after the mafl'acre of the Tartars in Media, they 
repeated the fiege ; Cyaxares and Nebuchadnezzar being 
the commanders. After they had lain before it three 
years, vhe river Tigris, or Lycus, exceedingly fwollen, 
broke down two miles and a half of the wall. When 
-the waters affuaged, the befiegers ruflied into the city, 
and murdered the inhabitants, who lay buried in their 
drunkennefs, occafioned by an advantage which they 
had juft before gained over the enemy. When the king, 
whole name we fuppofe was Sardanapalus, heard the 
city was taken, he fhut up himfelf and his family, and 
wealth, it is faid to the value of about 25,000,000,000 
fterling, in the palace, and then fet fire, to it, and de¬ 
ftroyed all that was in it. It is faid it was fifteen days 
before the flames were quenched. This happened about 
A. M. 3403. B. C. 606. This city was never rebuilt; 
another Nineveh, orNinus, was built near it, which con¬ 
tinued till the firft ages of Chriftianity ; but at prefent 
there is fcarce a veftige to be difcerned, either of the one 
or the other. Nah. i. ii. iii. Zeph. ii. 13-15. Modern tra¬ 
vellers, however, fay that the ruins of ancient Nineveh 
may ftill be feen on the eaftern banks of the Tigris, oppo- 
ftte to the city of Moful. (SeeMosuL.) But this aflertion 
is far from feeming probable ; for every trace of it feems 
to have fo totally difappeared, even fo early as A. D. 627, 
that the vacant fpace afforded a fpacious field for the cele¬ 
brated battle between the emperor Heraclius and the Per¬ 
fians. There are few things in ancient hiftory which have 
more puzzled the learned world, than to determine the 
fpot where this city flood. Mr. Ives informs us, that 
fome have imagined it flood near Jonah’s tomb ; while 
others fix it at another place, fome hours’ journey up the 
Tigris. Thefe different opinions, however, feem perfectly 
reconcilable ; for it appears at leaft probable, that ancient 
Nineveh took in the whole of the ground which lies be¬ 
tween thefe two ruined places. Mr. Ives adds, that 
“ what confirms this conjecture is, that much of this 
ground is now hilly; owing, no doubt, to the rubbifh of 
the ancient buildings. There is one mount of 200 or 300 
yards fquare, which Hands fome yards north-eaft of Jonah’s 
tomb ; whereon it is likely a fortification once flood. It 
feems to have been made by nature, or perhaps both by 
nature and art, for fuch an ufe.” Brown's Dictionary of 
the Bible, vol. i. ii. 
NIN'EVITE ,_/1 An inhabitant of Nineveh. 
NING, a city of China, of the fecond rank, in Chen-fi, 
on the Mali-en river; 503 miles fouth-weft of Peking. 
Lat. 35. 36. N. Ion. 107. 29. E. 
NING, a city of China, of the fecond rank, in Yun¬ 
nan : 1182 miles fouth-fouth-weft of Peking. Lat. 24. 
20. N. Ion. 102. 42. E. 
NING-HIANG', a town of China, of the third rank, 
in Chen-fi: thirteen miles fouth of Yung-Hing. 
NING-HIA-OUE'I, a fortrefs of China, in Chen-fi, on 
the borders of Tartary: five hundred miles weft-fouth- 
weft of Peking. Lat. 38. 32. N. Ion. 105. 39. E. 
NING-KOU'E, a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Kiang-nan : twenty-five miles fouth-eaft of Nhing-koue. 
NING-KIANG', a city of China, of the fecond rank, 
in Chen-fi : 665 miles fouth-weft of Peking. Lat. 32. 45. N. 
Ion. 106. E. 
NING-PO', a city of China, in the province of Tclie- 
kang. This city, which Europeans have called Liam-po, 
is a very good port, on the eaftern fea of China, over 
againft Japan. It is a city of the firft order, and has four 
towns of the third under its jurifdidlion : it is fituated on 
the confluence of two fmall rivers, which after their 
union form a channel, reaching to the fea, and is deep 
enough to bear vefl’els of 200 tons. One of thefe rivers, 
which the Chinefe call Kin, comes from the fouth; 
the other, called Yao, from w'eft-north-wefl. Thefe rivers 
water a plain, furrounded almoft on all lides with moun¬ 
tains ; and form a fort of an oval bafin, whofe diameter 
from eaft to weft (drawing a line acrofs the city) may be 
about twenty miles; that from north to fouth is much 
greater. The plain, which refembles a garden for its 
levelnefs and cultivation, is full of towns and houfes,and 
divided by a great number of canals, made by the waters 
which fall from the mountains. It is 662 miles fouth- 
fouth-eaft of Pekin. Lat. 29. 54. N. Ion. 120. 14. E. 
NING-YU'EN, a town of Chinefe Tartary, fituated on 
a river of the fame name, near the gulph of Leao-tong: 
twenty miles eaft-north-eaft of Pekin. 
NING-YU'EN, a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Chen-fi: twenty miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Kong-tchang. 
NING-YU'EN, a river of Chinefe Tartary, which runs 
into the Gulf of Leao-tong, a little below Ning-yuen. 
NING'HEN, a town of Bengal: eighteen miles north 
of Burdwan. 
NIN'GO, or Allampi, a diftridl or kingdom of Africa, 
on the Gold Coaft, with a town of the fame name: forty- 
three miles weft-fouth-well from the river Volta. Lat. 
5. 18. N. Ion. o. 36. W. 
NIN'GUM, or Mingum, in ancient geography, a town 
of Italy, upon the route from Aquilea to Salona, be¬ 
tween Tergefte and Pucentium ; twenty-eight miles from 
the firft, and eighteen from the fecond. 
NIN'IAN, commonly called St. Ninian, a holy man 
among the ancient Britons. He refided at or near a place 
called by Ptolemy Leucopibia, and by Bede Candida Cafa; 
but the Englifli and Scotch called it Whithorne. He is 
faid to have been the firft who converted the Scots and 
Pidls to the Chriltian faith; which he did during the 
