'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.' [‎55] (82/450)

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CH. XIV.] ANTIQUES FOUND AT NINEVEH.
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east. Close on its edge, and indeed, even in its bed,
is the recent excavation before mentioned, in which
were discovered large stones and bitumen ; and this
evening, as we were riding along it on our return
home, we saw some immense stones with bitumen in
several other places.
But I have a little outstripped my progress in the
survey. In riding along in the ditch, when I came
to the place where the mound grows higher, I
ascended it and took some sights with my compass.
My next station was at the southern termination
of the great mound. It here tails at once, without
being broken, into the common level. A little conical
artificial mount, called Zembil Tepessi, was visible
from hence, in the country outside the ruins, and
distant about half a mile in a south-east direction;
and to the east I perceived another mound, on the
outside of Eski Bari, near its north end, on the
Khausser, but it was not considerable. The straight
hollow way I have already described terminates
abruptly in Abdal Kaiasi, a little before Eski Bari.
We returned home a little after sunset.
November 16. — Delli Samaan, my curiosity-
hunter, brought me to-day some fragments of cunei
form inscriptions on stone, and a seal of agate with
the priest worshipping the sun, and other symbols,
similar in every respect to some I got at Babylon.
These he found in the mound of Koyunjuk, which
the native^ call the Kalaa, or Castle of Nine we.