. The history of Herodotus. A new English version, ed. with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information; and embodying the chief results, historical and ethnographical, which have been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical discovery . him to have boundedhis palace on the north ; andthat this canal, which mayeither have run east in theline assigned it in the ac-companying plan, or haveleft the Euphrates higher upand have been carried in asouth-east direction to thehead of the gieat reservoir,mu
. The history of Herodotus. A new English version, ed. with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information; and embodying the chief results, historical and ethnographical, which have been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical discovery . him to have boundedhis palace on the north ; andthat this canal, which mayeither have run east in theline assigned it in the ac-companying plan, or haveleft the Euphrates higher upand have been carried in asouth-east direction to thehead of the gieat reservoir,must most certainly haveinteivened between the pa-lace and the temple, andmay therefore be the water-course which Herodotus re-. Portions of Ancient Babylon distinguishable in thepresent Ruins. 7 This vras strongly urged by Rich (SecondMemoir, p. 32) and Ker Porter (vol. ii. ), who were the first to propose the iden-tification of the Birs with the Temple ofBelus. It is echoed by Xiebuhr (1. s. c),and Fresnel (Journ. Asiatique, Juillet, 1853,p. 24). s See Beros. Fr. 14, p. 508; Strab. 1050 ; Steph. Eyz. ad Sec. See the inscription upon the Birs Cylin-der, infra, p. 485, and compaie the abstractof the Standard inscription in Note A at theend of this Essay. i* Supra, vol. i. p. 257, note *. > See note to Book i. ch. 181. - In the St;indard Inscription, infra, Essay IV. MOUND OF BABIL. 477 garded as the true river. It was not, however, the only or eventhe main watercourse which intersected Babylon. Nebuchadnezzarspeaks of the River of Sippara^ as the western boundary of hispalace, intending by this the natural course of the Euphrates; Avhichseems to have passed through the ruins a little
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