'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in reference to Major Rennell's remarks: with narrative of a journey to Persepolis: now first printed, with hitherto unpublished cuneiform inscriptions copied at Persepolis: by the late Claudius James Rich, Esq., formerly the Resident of the Hon.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.' [‎38] (65/474)

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flat on the top, of an irregular form, about thirty
toises high, and much cut up by furrows down the
sides. It would never have been taken for a work
of man's, were it not for the regular layers of bricks
which are visible, and which prove that it was no
natural hill. Beyond this mound, on the banks of
the river, are immense masses of building which
supplied bricks for the building of Hillah. This
place, and the mound called the Tower of Babel, are
commonly designated by the Arabs, which
means overturned."
Besides these ruins, M. de Beauchamp likewise
mentions a brick wall, which he judges must have
been sixty feet thick. " It ran," he adds, " parallel
with the river, and may have been part of the wall of
the city. I discovered, also, a subterranean chan
nel, which, instead of being vaulted, was covered
with flat stones, three feet broad, by six or seven
long. These ruins extend several miles to the north
of Hillah, and satisfactorily prove this to have been
the site of ancient Babylon." *
In another memoir upon the same subject, M. de
Beauchamp adds—" There is no longer any doubt
regarding the position of Babylon, which lies just
above Hillah. I have explored the site, and I have
brought away Babylonian inscriptions. I drew up
on the spot an account of what I saw. I do not
* Memoire sur les Antiquit6s Babyloniennes, &c., lu a 1"Acadi'mic
dcs Belles Lettres, et imprime dans le Journal des Savans. Dec.,
1790.