...once mighty city thrown down from its foundation, and exhibiting on the summit of the ruinous heap, " immense fragments of brick-work, of no determinate...solid vitrified masses, as if they had undergone the fiercest fire, or been blown up with gunpowder." It is, in fact, a burnt mountain, fused either by...

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...is nearly impossible to extract one of the bricks whole. The other parts of the summit of this hill are occupied by immense fragments of brick-work of...fire, or been blown up with gunpowder, the layers of the bricks being perfectly discernible, — a curious fact, and one for which I am utterly incapable...

...bricks whole. The other parts of the summit of this hill are occupied by immense fragments of brick work of no determinate figure, tumbled together, and converted...fire, or been blown up with gunpowder, the layers of the bricks being perfectly discernible — a curious fact, and one for which I am incapable of accounting....

...bricks whole. The other parts of the summit of this hill are occupied by immense fragments of brick work of no determinate figure, tumbled together and converted...fire, or been blown up with gunpowder, the layers of the bricks perfectly discernible, — a curious fact, and one for which I am utterly incapable of...

...elsewhere? It seems probable that the Babel of Genesis is the Birs Nemroud of Mr. Rich *; and that " the immense fragments of brick-work of no determinate...together, and converted into solid vitrified masses," which occupy the summit of this vast artificial hill, and which are described by Captain Frederick...

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...elsewhere ? It seems probable that the Babel of Genesis is the Birs Nemroud of Mr. Rich *; and that " the immense fragments of brick-work of no determinate...together, and converted into solid vitrified masses," which occupy the summit of this vast artificial hill, and which are described by Captain Frederick...

...is nearly impossible to extract one of the bricks whole. The other parts of the summit of this hill are occupied by immense fragments of brick-work, of...fire, or been blown up with gunpowder, the layers of the bricks being perfectly discernible, — a curious fact, and one for which I am utterly incapable...

...is nearly impossible to extract one of the bricks whole. The other parts of the summit of this hill are occupied by immense fragments of brick-work, of...determinate figure, tumbled together and converted into K:t/ii/ vitrified masses, as if they had undergone the action of the fiercest fire, or been blown up...