'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in reference to Major Rennell's remarks: with narrative of a journey to Persepolis: now first printed, with hitherto unpublished cuneiform inscriptions copied at Persepolis: by the late Claudius James Rich, Esq., formerly the Resident of the Hon.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.' [‎59] (137/474)

OF BABYLON.
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three hundred yards broad at its base, from the E.
angle of which a mound (resembling the boundary A,
but broader and flatter,) proceeds, taking a sweep
to the S. E., so as to be nearly parallel with, and
forty yards more to the south than, that boundary:
this loses itself in the plain, and is in fact the most
southerly of all the ruins. The embankment is con
tinued in a right line to the north, and diminishes
in breadth, but increases in elevation till at the dis
tance of seven hundred and fifty yards from its com
mencement, where it is forty feet perpendicular
height, and is interrupted by a break (C) nearly of
the same breadth with the river ; at this point a tri
angular piece of ground commences, recently gained
from the river, which deserts its original channel
above, and returns to it again here: this gained
ground (D) is a hundred and ten yards in length, and
two hundred and fifty in breadth at its angle or
point, and along its base are traces of a continuation
of the embankment, which is there a narrow line
that soon loses itself. Above this, the bank of the
river affords nothing worthy of remark ; for though
in some places there are slight vestiges of building,
they were evidently not connected with the above-
mentioned embankment.
The whole of the area inclosed by the boundary on
the east and south, and river on the west, is two
miles and six hundred yards in breadth from E. to
W. (exclusive of the gained ground, which I do not
take into account, as comprising no part of the ruins).