The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia . enter alternativement au dehors leurface la plus large et une de leurs ex-tremites ; cest-a-dire que tous etantposes de champ, Iun tapisse le mas-sif, puis un et quelquefois deuxautres continucnt Iassise ])iir leurs extreraites, la meme alternative serepetant dans toute la longueur decelle-ci. II en resulte quetant tousde meme longueur, ceux qui pre-sentent une extremite au dehors de-passent a Iinterieur la ligne desautres, et sencastrent dans le
The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia . enter alternativement au dehors leurface la plus large et une de leurs ex-tremites ; cest-a-dire que tous etantposes de champ, Iun tapisse le mas-sif, puis un et quelquefois deuxautres continucnt Iassise ])iir leurs extreraites, la meme alternative serepetant dans toute la longueur decelle-ci. II en resulte quetant tousde meme longueur, ceux qui pre-sentent une extremite au dehors de-passent a Iinterieur la ligne desautres, et sencastrent dans le massifde briques. Cette disposition avaitpour but de lier solidement Iamasterreux interieur au revetement ex-terieur. (^Monument de Ninive, p. 31.) Chap. VI. MASONRY. 407 in length and a foot in height: the rest of themasonry consisted of small polygonal stones, merelysmoothed on their outer face, and roughly fittingtogether in a manner recalling the Cyclopian wallsof Greece and Italy.^ They were not united by anycement. Above the stone basement was a massivestructure of crude brick, without any facing eitherof burnt brick or of Jlasoiirv of town-wall ( Mioisabad). The third kind of masonry at Khorsabad wasfound outside the main wall, and may have formedeither part of the lining of the moat or a portionof a tower, which may have projected in advanceof the wall at this point. It was entirely of stone. M. Botta 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, oneo
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