. Nineveh and Babylon : a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, & 1851. es con-taining the archives and treasures of the kingdom, shouldhave been in the centre of the fortifications, equally pro-tected on all sides. The palaces of Nimroud and Kouyunjik,built on a platfoma, which was washed on one side by a deepand broad river, were, to a certain extent, guarded from theapproach of an enemy. But at Khorsabad such was not thecase. The royal residence overlooked the plain country, andwas accessible from it, unless the summit of the platformwere strongly fortifie
. Nineveh and Babylon : a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, & 1851. es con-taining the archives and treasures of the kingdom, shouldhave been in the centre of the fortifications, equally pro-tected on all sides. The palaces of Nimroud and Kouyunjik,built on a platfoma, which was washed on one side by a deepand broad river, were, to a certain extent, guarded from theapproach of an enemy. But at Khorsabad such was not thecase. The royal residence overlooked the plain country, andwas accessible from it, unless the summit of the platformwere strongly fortified on the western side, of which thereis no trace. Of the fortified inclosures still existing, that defendingKouyunjik is the most remarkable, and was best calculatedto withstand the attack of a powerful and numerous army. * See p. 54. XIV.] FORTIFICATIONS OF KOUYUNJIK. 395 Its form, it will be perceived, was irregular. The wallfacing the river {a), including the mounds of Kouyunjikand Nebbi Yunus, and the northern (or north-western) wall(b), are at right angles to each other, and are nearly straight.*. \i;v; Plan of Mound and Inclosurr of Kouyunjik. From the easterncorner of the northern face, the inner wall (r),which is about 16,000 feet, or three miles in length, curvestowards the southern end of the western, the two being about1,000 yards apart at their extremities (^/). The whole extent * Plate 70, in the 2nd series of the Monuments of Ninevehwill con-vey an idea of the nature of the earthen ramparts forming the inclosureround Kouyunjik. The upper lithograph represents the northern \\\\tof wall. 396 NINEVEH AND BABYLON. [Chap. of the walls is thus about eight miles. On the four sides arethe remains of towers and curtains, and the walls appear tohave consisted of a basement of stone and an upper structureof sundried bricks. The top of the stone masonry was or-namented with gradines as at Nimroud.* There were pro-bably numerous gateways, and their sites are still marked bymou
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