. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . to 3| inches wide (Kich, Voyage aux ruines de Bahylone, Kaymondstranslation, p. 96, etseq. ; Ker Porter, Travels, vol. ii. p. 278). H. Rawlinson thinks, on the otherhand, that all the monuments in which we find layers of straw and reeds between the brickcourses belong to the Parthian period (in G. Rawlinsons Herodotus, 2nd edit., vol. i. p. 253,note 4).. TUE CITIES AND THEIR WALLS. 625 the walls soon became consolidated into a compact mass, in which the horizontalstrata were distinguishable only by the varied tints of the clay used to makethe di
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . to 3| inches wide (Kich, Voyage aux ruines de Bahylone, Kaymondstranslation, p. 96, etseq. ; Ker Porter, Travels, vol. ii. p. 278). H. Rawlinson thinks, on the otherhand, that all the monuments in which we find layers of straw and reeds between the brickcourses belong to the Parthian period (in G. Rawlinsons Herodotus, 2nd edit., vol. i. p. 253,note 4).. TUE CITIES AND THEIR WALLS. 625 the walls soon became consolidated into a compact mass, in which the horizontalstrata were distinguishable only by the varied tints of the clay used to makethe different relays of Monuments constructed of such a plasticmaterial required constant attention and frequent repairs, to keep them in goodcondition : after a few years of neglect they became quite disfigured, the housessuffered a partial dissolutionin every storm, the streetswere covered with a coatingof fine mud, and the generaloutline of the buildings andhabitations grew blurred anddefaced. Whilst in Egyptthe main features of thetowns are still traceable aboveground, and are so well pre-served in places that, whileexcavating them, we are car-ried away from the presentinto the world of the past,the Chaldsean cities, on thecontrary, are so overthrownand seem to have returned sothoroughly to the dust from which their founders raised them, that the mostpatient research and the most enlight
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