'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in reference to Major Rennell's remarks: with narrative of a journey to Persepolis: now first printed, with hitherto unpublished cuneiform inscriptions copied at Persepolis: by the late Claudius James Rich, Esq., formerly the Resident of the Hon.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.' [‎175] (263/474)

ON THE RUINS OF BABYLON.
stones of very large dimensions^ which sufficiently attest
their high antiquity, are found in or at the foot of the mound
which forms the boundary. These the Turks break into
small fragments, to employ in the construction of their
edifices. The permanent part of the bridge of Mousul was
built by a late Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. wholly with stones found in the part
of the boundary which connects the Koyunjuk with Nebbi
Yunus, and which is the least considerable of all. The
small river Khausar traverses the area above described from
east to west, and divides it nearly into two equal parts : it
makes a sweep round the east and south sides of Koyunjuk
Tepe, and then discharges itself into the Tigris above the
bridge of Mousul. It is almost superfluous to add that the
mount of Koyunjuk Tepe is wholly artificial.
I hope to make Nineveh the subject of a future Memoir*.
It is possible that the Larissa of Xenophon, with its pyra
mid, whose base was one plethron, and height two, was no
other than Nineveh with the sepulchre of Ninus (see Ana
basis, lib. iii),—I cannot quit this subject without remark
ing a curious coincidence. At Messila, a Median town six
parasangs above Larissa, Xenophon saw the base of a wall
built of hewn shelly stone, Hv Ss ^ xgnaU \iQou ^zarov
Koyy^vXioiroVf x. r. X. At Mousul I have seen pieces of this
stone, which is a complete conglomeration of small shells.
(B.) Page 145.
When I remarked in my former Memoir that the words
of Herodotus, stating the basement story of the Tower of
Belus to be (jtoc^lov kocl to iatikos xal to svqos, should be trans
lated of a stadium in length and breadth," and not
" height and breadth," I had not seen Wesseling's edition of
Herodotus; by which I find that the reading which makes
* See Rich's Koordistan, vol. ii. p. 30—65.-