'Narrative of a journey to the site of Babylon in 1811, now first published: memoir on the ruins; with engravings from the original sketches by the author: remarks on the topography of ancient Babylon, by Major Rennell; in reference to the memoir: second memoir on the ruins; in reference to Major Rennell's remarks: with narrative of a journey to Persepolis: now first printed, with hitherto unpublished cuneiform inscriptions copied at Persepolis: by the late Claudius James Rich, Esq., formerly the Resident of the Hon. East India Company at Bagdad. Edited by his widow.' [‎302] (445/474)

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formed by the master mason employed to dig for bricks
that the places from which he procured them were large
thick walls^ and sometimes chambers. He has frequently
found earthen vessels, engraved marbles^ and about eight
years ago a statue as large as life,, which he threw amongst
the rubbish. On one wall of a chamber he found the
figures of a cow, and of the sun and moon, formed of var
nished bricks.* Sometimes idols of clay are found repre
senting human figures. I found one brick on which was a
lion, and on others a half-moon in relief. The bricks are
cemented with bitumen, except in one place which is well
preserved, where they are united by a very thin stratum of
white cement, which appears to me to be made of lime and
sand.
" The bricks are everywhere of the same dimensions, one
foot three lines square by three inches thick. Occasionally
layers of osiers in bitumen are found as at Babel.
" The master mason led me along a valley which he dug
out a long while ago to get at the bricks of a wall that from
the marks he showed me I guess to have been sixty feet
thick. It ran perpendicular to the bed of the river, and
was probably the wall of the city. I found in it a subter
ranean canal, which, instead of being arched over, is covered
with pieces of sandstone six or seven feet long by three
wide. These ruins extend several leagues to the north of
Hillah, and incontestibly mark the situation of ancient
Babylon.
" I employed two men for three hours in clearing a
stone which they supposed to be an idol. The part which
Diodorus, lib. ii. c. 1, says that there were drawn in colours on
the bricks, used in building the wall of the great palace, various
animals; also a representation of a general hunting of wild beasts,
&c. The bricks were painted before they were burnt.