Nineveh and Babylon; a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, and 1851 (1867)
Layard, Austen Henry, Sir, 1817-1894 · London J. Murray · leaf 333
more like the ruins on theeastern bank of the Euphrates. It is traversed by ravinesand watercourses, and strewed over it are the usual fragmentsof stone, brick, and pottery. Upon its summit are two smallMohammedan chapels, one of which, the Arabs declare, isbuilt over the spot where Nimrod cast the… … suggesting any satisfactory restoration of the Birs. It isgenerally represented, without suthcient accuracy, as a mereshapeless mass. JUit it examined from the-summit of tiieadjoining mound, its outline would at once strike any oneacquainted with the ruins to the west of Mosul, described ina former…
