. Nineveh and Babylon : a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, & 1851. Vaulted Drain beneath South-east Palace. (Nimroud.) that the Assyrians were well acquainted at an early periodwith the true principle of the arch. The earth falling awayfrom the sides of the deep trench opened in the north-westpalace for the removal of the bull and lion during the formerexcavations, left uncovered the entrance to a vaulted drain or 54 NINEVEH AND BABYLON. [Chap. passage built of sun-dried bricks. Beneath was a smallwater-course, inclosed by square slabs of alabaster.* Ath
. Nineveh and Babylon : a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, & 1851. Vaulted Drain beneath South-east Palace. (Nimroud.) that the Assyrians were well acquainted at an early periodwith the true principle of the arch. The earth falling awayfrom the sides of the deep trench opened in the north-westpalace for the removal of the bull and lion during the formerexcavations, left uncovered the entrance to a vaulted drain or 54 NINEVEH AND BABYLON. [Chap. passage built of sun-dried bricks. Beneath was a smallwater-course, inclosed by square slabs of alabaster.* Athird arch was found beneath the ruins of the south-eastedifice almost at the very foot of the mound. In the south-east corner of the quadrangle, formed by thelow mounds marking the wails once surrounding this quarter ^m^j^^-. ^-^ ^z. Vaulted Drain beneath the North-west Palace at Niniroud. Of the city of Nineveh, or the park attached to the royal resi-dence, the level of the soil is considerably higher than in anyother part of the inclosed space. This sudden inequalityevidently indicates the site of some ancient edifice. Con- * This drain was beneath chaml^ers S and T of the noilh-wesl palace.(See Plan II. Nineveh and its Remains, p. 42.) II.] ATTACK ON NIMROUD. 55 nected with it, rising abruptly, and almost perpendicularly,from the plain, and forming one of the corners of the walls,is a lofty, irregular mound, known to the Arabs by the nameof the Tel (mound) of Athur, the Lieutenant of Nimrod.*Several tunnels and trenches opened in it showed nothingbut earth, unmingled with bricks or fragments of stone. Re-mains of walls and a pavement of baked bricks were, how-ever, discovered at the foot of the high mound. The brickshad evidently been taken from some other building, forupon them were traces of coloured
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