. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . ng properly to the inner wall, which was of less thickness than theouter. According to Ctesias the wall was strength-ened with 250 towers, irregularly disposed to guardthe weakest parts; and according to Herodotus it had100 gates of brass, with brazen lintels and gates and walls are mentioned in Scripture; theheight of the one and the breadth of the other beingspecially noticed (Jer. li. 58 ; compare 1. 15, and li. 53).Herodotus and Ctesias both relate that the banksof the river as it flowed through the city were oneach side ornamented
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . ng properly to the inner wall, which was of less thickness than theouter. According to Ctesias the wall was strength-ened with 250 towers, irregularly disposed to guardthe weakest parts; and according to Herodotus it had100 gates of brass, with brazen lintels and gates and walls are mentioned in Scripture; theheight of the one and the breadth of the other beingspecially noticed (Jer. li. 58 ; compare 1. 15, and li. 53).Herodotus and Ctesias both relate that the banksof the river as it flowed through the city were oneach side ornamented with quays. Some remains ofa quay or embanumcnt (E) on the E. side of thestream still exist, upon the bricks of which is readthe name of the last king. Perhaps a remarkablemound (K) which interrupts the long flat valley—evidently the ancient course of the river—may be atrace of the bridge which both these writers de- 90 BAB BAB scribe.—II. Present Stale of the Ruins.—About fivemiles above Hillah, on the opposite or left bank of DO. a ... *:» .
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