100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 60 yards. Scale of a British Standard Mile. D Read sc. The Ruins of Babylon on the East Bank of the Euphrates. MEMOIR ON THE RUINS OF BABYLON. THE site of Babylon having never been either thoroughly explored, or accurately described, I beg leave to offer to the Associates of the Mines de l'Orient an account of my observations on that celebrated spot, the completion of which has been retarded by frequent interruptions from indisposition and official occupation. I have frequently had occasion to remark the inadequacy of general descriptions to convey an accurate idea of persons or places. I found this particularly exemplified in the present instance. From the accounts of modern travellers, I had expected to have found on the site of Babylon, more or less, than I actually did. Less, because I could have formed no conception of the prodigious extent of the whole ruins, or of the size, solidity, and perfect state, of some of the parts of them; and more, because I thought that I should have distinguished some traces, however imperfect, of many of the principal struc |