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Title: Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia, ancient Babylonia, &c. &c. : during the years 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820
Year: 1821 (1820s)
Authors: Porter, Robert Ker, Sir, 1777-1842
Subjects: Porter, Robert Ker, Sir, 1777-1842
Publisher: London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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ns of succeeding ages. The summit of this first stage, stretches in rather a flattened sweep to the base ofthe second ascent, which springs out of the first in a steep and abrupt conical form, terminated at the top by a solitary standing fragment of brick-work, like the ruin of a tower. From the foundation of the whole pile, to the base of this piece of ruin,measures about 200 feet; and from the bottom of the ruin to its shattered top, are 35 feet. On the western side, the entire mass rises at once from the plain in one stupendous, though irregular pyramidal hill, broken, in the slopes of its sweeping acclivities, bythe devastations of time and rougher destruction, f The south-ern and northern fronts are particularly abrupt towards the point of the brick ruin; but in both these views we have a profile of the first stage of the Birs, which I fully described in approach-ino- the eastern face. My advance to the northern steep, was * See Plate LXX. f See Plate LXIX. t See Plates LXIX. and LXX.
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THE TOWER OF BABEL. gjj page 311 much interrupted by large masses of fine and solid brick-work, projecting from amongst the far-spreading heaps of rubbish atits base, and which had evidently been parts of the original facing of the lower ranges of the pile. I shall describe these fragments more particularly hereafter; meanwhile observing,that it is only on the northern side they occur. The tower-like ruin on the extreme summit is a solid mass, 28 feet broad, constructed of the most beautiful brick masonry,and presenting the apparent angle of some structure originallyof a square shape; the remains of which stand on the east, to a height of 35 feet, and to the south 22 feet. It is rent from thetop to nearly half-way to the bottom; unquestionably by somegreat convulsion of nature, or some even more extraordinary destructive efforts of man. The materials of the masonry are furnace-burnt bricks, of a much thinner fabrick than most ofthose which are found, east of the river, on the spot to w

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