. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. and of a peo])lc whose powerswere not lost, if the hypothesis brought before the reader in the jirevious section on Celticand Dniidical architecture be founded on the basis of truth, but shown afterwards, ontheir separation from the parent stock, in Abury, Stonehenge, Carnac, and many otherplaces. Ruins to a considerable extent exist round the Birs Nemroud ; but for our pur-pose it is not necessary to particularise them. The chance (for more the haj
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. and of a peo])lc whose powerswere not lost, if the hypothesis brought before the reader in the jirevious section on Celticand Dniidical architecture be founded on the basis of truth, but shown afterwards, ontheir separation from the parent stock, in Abury, Stonehenge, Carnac, and many otherplaces. Ruins to a considerable extent exist round the Birs Nemroud ; but for our pur-pose it is not necessary to particularise them. The chance (for more the hajipiest conjec-ture would not warrant) of conclusively enabling the reader to come to a certain and definitenotion of the venerable city, whereof it is our object to give him a faint idea, is far tooindefinite to detain him and exhaust his patience. One circumstance, however, we mustnot omit ; and again wo shall use the words of the traveller to whom we are under somany obligations. They are, — To these ruins I must add one, which, though lot in theiwnie tiirection, bears such strong characteristics of a Babvlonian origin, that it would be. ^-^^^^^. IS HISTOIIY UY ARCHITECTURE, Book I. iinpioper to oinlt a (lescii|)tion of it in tiiis place. I mectn Akerkoiif, or, as it is inoieg(Mierally calleil, Niinrods Tower ; for the inhal)itants of these jiarts are as fond of attri-buting every vestige of anti(|uity to Nimrod as those of Egypt are to Pharaoh. It issituate ten miles to the north-west of ISagdad, and is a thick mass of unhiirnt brickwork,of an irregular sliajie, rising out of a base of ridjbish ; there is a layer of reeds l)etweeievery fifth or sixth (for the number is not regulated) layer of bricks. It is perforated withsmall square holes, as the brickwork at the Birs Nemroud ; and al)out halfway up on theeast side is an aperture like a window ; the layers of cement are very thin, which, consider-ing it is mere mud, is an extraordinary circumstance. The height of the whol
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