'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in reference to Major Rennell's remarks: with narrative of a journey to Persepolis: now first printed, with hitherto unpublished cuneiform inscriptions copied at Persepolis: by the late Claudius James Rich, Esq., formerly the Resident of the Hon.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.' [‎323] (466/474)

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with water, drawn up by engines, from the Euphrates.
Consequently the palace should have stood nearer to the
centre of the city itself, than to that of the division
in which it stood; since the division was more than four
miles broad: and it appears natural enough that the prin
cess should avail herself of the prospect of a noble river, a
stadium in breadth, flowing near the palace, in&tead o 1
withdrawing two miles from it • and it appears probable
that the temple was also at no great distance from the
opposite bank of the river ; that is, the bank*
"A presumptive proof of the supposed position ox the
temple, should the words of Diodorus be regarded as
ambiguous, is, that the gate of the city named
and which we must conclude to be denominated from the
temple, appears pretty clearly to have been situated on the
east side. When Darius Hystaspes besieged Babylon
(Thalia, 155, et seq.), the Belidian and Cissian gates were
opened to him by Zopyrus, and the Babylonians fled for
refuge to the temple of Belus, as, we may suppose, the
nearest place of security. The Cissian or Sussian gate
must surelv have been in the eastern front of the city, as
Susa lay to the east, and, by circumstances, the
gate was near it; as the plan was laid that troops
were to be stationed opposite to these gates ; and it is pro
bable that matters would be so contrived as to facilitate as
much as possible the junction of the two bodies of Persian
troops that were first to enter the city as a kind of forlorn
hope.
* Here it is proper to remark that there is this specific difference
between the descriptions of Herodotus and of Diodorus: the first
says that the centres of the two divisions were occupied respectively by
the palace and temple; but Diodorus, by palaces; and although
he speaks of the temple also, yet he does not point out its place.
The square of the temple itself was two stadia.