Identifier: travelsingeorgia02port (find matches)
Title: Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia, ancient Babylonia, &c. &c. : during the years 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820
Year: 1821 (1820s)
Authors: Porter, Robert Ker, Sir, 1777-1842
Subjects: Porter, Robert Ker, Sir, 1777-1842
Publisher: London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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re-eminent Asiatic cities, were in themselves fortresses. . The Mujelibe, or, as I would suppose it, the ancient citadelof this royally inclosed part of Babylon, is, at present, in a manner cut off from the range it formerly protected, by the extended line of the Old and New Nil (or Neel) canals ; which cross be-fore-it, at about a quarter of a mile distant, reaching from theEuphrates to the great bounding embankment on the east of the pile, and severing that also, runs on far beyond the presentpoint of my observations. Although it is generally said that the first mentioned of these water-courses is of deep antiquity,yet its very obstructing position, with relation to so vast a building as the Mujelibe, proves that it must have been dug in times so far subsequent to the era of Babylon, that these neighbouring great structures could then be deemed of no more consequence than accidental hills in the vicinity of a river. Ina succeeding conversation with Mr. Rich, he was so kind as to ////. //,
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Plan of remains of Babylon, the Mujelibé Kasr; &c. GREAT EMBANKMENT OR RAMPART. p 349 shew me his second manuscript on the Ruins of Babylon ; which gave me the gratification of knowing that my conclusions were right; he having clearly shewn that there are no traces of this canal having existed earlier than the eleventh century of our own era. Before I proceed to a description of the Kasr and Amran Hill,it may promote a clearer view of the whole subject to follow the entire course of the high embankment I have mentioned, as be-ginning something west of the Mujelibe, in order to show how extensive an area it embraces, and how far it corresponds with the space described by ancient authors, as that of the castellated palace. This magnificent rampart, in its present ruined state,appears to commence a little beyond the north-west angle of the Mujelibe ; thence passes before the northern and eastern sides of that pile, running in a strait-forward line almost due south,ti

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