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The Birs Nimrfid from N.E., by Lieut. Fitzjames, R.N.
bear also the names of Werka, 'Irka, and Irak. From these Erech.
names, as well as other circumstances, Colonel Taylor has
been induced to conclude that the ruins are those of Erech,
the second city of Nimrdd. They are near the Karayim
canal; and their effect on the serene sky of this country was
particularly imposing, when viewed from a distance of about
thirteen miles, as the steamer approached the bed of the
Chaldean lake in 1836.
A ccad.
Extending to a considerable distance round the colossal Accad
mound of Akar Kuf, (the Akari Nimrud and Akari Babil of
the Arabs,) situated 55 miles N. 13° W. of Babel, may be
traced the remains of a city, of which this mound, like those
of Babel and Erech, was probably the high altar, or Baris ; 1
and the name, as well as the primitive construction of the
pyramid, may serve to identify the ruins as those of Accad,
Nimrud's third city.
C halne.
At the extremity of the plain of Shinar, and near the foot
of the Sinjar mountains, we find on the banks of the Khabtir,
near its confluence with the Euphrates, two extensive heaps
1 See Ainsworth's Assyria, &c., p. 175.