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hvd.hxgffp	Rich, Claudius James	Memoir on the ruins of Babylon by Claudius James Rich, Esq. ... ; with three plates 	1818		.txt	text/plain	19729	1103	74	Hilla, and commence my description with an account of the country about that place. place the ruins of Babylon considerably more to the Pasha of Bagdad has ordered a new wall to be constructed of the finest Babylonian bricks. In such a soil as that of Babylon it appears surprising how long some of the canals have remained. The ruins of the eastern quarter of Babylon commence about two miles above Hilla, and consist of of burnt brick laid in lime mortar of a very good quality are seen; and in addition to the substances generally strewed on the surfaces of all these mounds we surprising mass of all the remains of Babylon is situated in this desert, about six miles to the south-west Major Rennel considers this ruin as sufficiently answering to the site of the Tower of Belus: The Ruins of Babylon on the East Bank of the Euphrates. every ruin which remains of ancient Babylon to	./cache/hvd.hxgffp.pdf	./txt/hvd.hxgffp.txt