. Nineveh and Babylon : a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, & 1851. The Nimroud, or Tower of Babel of early Travelleis. early Christian tra\-ellers, as well as some of more recentdate, have not hesitated to recognise in them proofs of thatdivine vengeance, which, according to tradition, arrested byiw^ from heaven the imjjious attempt of the first descendantsof Noah. Even the Jews, it would appear, at one time identified the XI.] THE BIRS NIMROUD. 279 Birs Nimroud with the Tower of Babel. Benjamin of Tu-dela, who saw it in the twelfth century, gives
. Nineveh and Babylon : a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, & 1851. The Nimroud, or Tower of Babel of early Travelleis. early Christian tra\-ellers, as well as some of more recentdate, have not hesitated to recognise in them proofs of thatdivine vengeance, which, according to tradition, arrested byiw^ from heaven the imjjious attempt of the first descendantsof Noah. Even the Jews, it would appear, at one time identified the XI.] THE BIRS NIMROUD. 279 Birs Nimroud with the Tower of Babel. Benjamin of Tu-dela, who saw it in the twelfth century, gives the followingcurious account of the ruin. The tower built by the dis-persed generation is four miles from Hillah. It is constructedof bricks, called Al-ajur (the word still used by the Arabs forkiln-burnt bricks); the base measures two miles, the breadth240 yards, and the height about 100 canna. A spiral pas-sage, built into the tower (from ten to ten yards), leads upto the summit, from which there is a prospect of twentymiles, the country being one wide plain, and quite heavenly fire which
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