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TOPOGRAPHY OF ANCIENT BABYLON.

It has not yet been distinctly shown by any person of what quality the materials of the substratum of the Mujelibè are. Much may be collected from a knowledge of this circumstance, as it is possible that it may have been a natural eminence reduced to that form; such a one being said to occur at Musseib, a place at the side of the Euphrates, higher up on the same side (of Mesopotamia).

As Mr. Rich projected other excursions to these ruins (see his Memoir, page 45), we may soon expect some further information, and that probably of an interesting kind. It is obvious, however, that very much time will be required for the purpose of examining the different objects generally, they being so numerous and so widely extended.

SECOND

MEMOIR ON BABYLON:

CONTAINING

AN INQUIRY

INTO THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE ANCIENT DESCRIPTIONS OF BABYLON AND THE REMAINS STILL VISIBLE ON THE SITE.

SUGGESTED BY THE "REMARKS" OF MAJOR RENNELL PUBLISHED IN THE ARCHEOLOGIA.

BY

CLAUDIUS JAMES RICH, Esq.

ADVERTISEMENT.

My first very imperfect Memoir made its appearance in an oriental literary Journal, published in Vienna, and called the Mines de l'Orient. So numerous were the typographical errors of that edition, that my Essay was in many places scarcely recognisable even by myself. My friends were of opinion that it ought to be republished in England; and an edition of it was printed from the Mines de l'Orient, which was received with indulgence by the Public, notwithstanding the many inaccuracies which I fear must have been retained. I have not seen a copy of the English Edition, and therefore in the following Memoir I beg to be understood as referring entirely to the original German one.