'Narrative of a Residence in Koordistan, and on the Site of Ancient Nineveh; with Journal of a Voyage down the Tigris to Bagdad and an Account of a Visit to Shirauz and Persepolis.' [‎40] (67/450)

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EXCAVATION OF THE MOUNT. [dl. XIII.
last mount but one, the country is hilly, or perhaps
it would be more correct to say, unequal; and there
abouts it runs off to form the high bank of the river
on which the Sheikh * is situated.
November 11.—There was some rain in the night,
but not enough to spoil my day's work. I therefore
went out at the usual time, and set Captain Kefala,
with a working party of sepoys Term used in English to refer to an Indian infantryman. Carries some derogatory connotations as sometimes used as a means of othering and emphasising race, colour, origins, or rank. , to measure the base,
while I went round the southern part of Nineveh,
sketched the country, and took the remaining angles.
The wall up to Nebbi Yunus bends inwards a little,
and, except near the south-west angle, it is small,
low, and broken. The road from Karakoosh to
Mousul runs along it. Near the angle it becomes
high again, and continues high and regular round
the south-west angle up to the south-east angle, and
then round to the double-headed mount, which I call
Station 8. The sides, though very steep, are ploughed.
On the south side or face of the inclosure are
three openings, the centre one of which at least
seems to have been part of the original plan. A few
yards Irom it on the outside of the wall near the
Karakoosh road my attention was called to a very
curious object, seemingly of the remotest antiquity.
Some people had been digging for stones, and had
dug a hole in the ground, from which they had
turned up many large hewn stones with bitumen
* Ihe tomb of a Mahometan saint, but "whose name I cannot
learn.— Ed,