The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia . ta makes this comparison course seems to be maintained (Monument de Ninive, 1. s. c). His tliroughont; and 2. the stones do representation, however, differs in not fit into each other at all closely two main points from the ordinary ur with any style: 1. the horizontal 408 THE SECOND MONARCHY. Chap. VI. The lowest course was formed of small and veryirregular polygonal blocks roughly fitted together;above this came two courses
The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia . ta makes this comparison course seems to be maintained (Monument de Ninive, 1. s. c). His tliroughont; and 2. the stones do representation, however, differs in not fit into each other at all closely two main points from the ordinary ur with any style: 1. the horizontal 408 THE SECOND MONARCHY. Chap. VI. The lowest course was formed of small and veryirregular polygonal blocks roughly fitted together;above this came two courses of carefully squaredstones more than a foot long, but less than sixinches in width, which were placed end-wise, oneover the other, care being taken that the joints ofthe upper tier should never coincide exactly withthose of the lower. Above these was a third courseof hewn stones, somewhat smaller than the others,which were laid in the ordinary manner. Here theconstruction, as discovered, terminated; but it wasevident, from the debris of hewn stones at the footof the wair, that originally the courses had beencontinued to a much greater height.^. In this description of the buildings raised by theAssyrians it has been noticed more than once thatthey were not ignorant of the use of the arch. Theold notion that the round arch was a discovery of Botta, Momnnent de Ninive, vol. v. p. 31. ^ Sujuii, pp. -JTH, 31)0, &c. Chap. VI. USE OF THE ARCH. 409 the Roman, and the pointed of the Gothic archi-tects, has gradually faded away with our ever-increasing knowledge of the actual state of theancient world f and antiquarians were not, perhaps,very much surprised to learn, by the discoveries ofMr. Layard, that the Assyrians knew and used bothkinds of arch intheir interest, how-ever, will probablybe felt to attach tothe two questions,how th(iy formedtheir arches, and towhat uses they ap-plied them. All the Assyrianarches hitherto dis-covered are of round archesare b
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