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 57
, or the Fat, wasstill the overseer of the workmen, and accompanied me onmy first visit to the ruins. But little change had taken place in the great mound sinceI had last seen it. It was yellow and bare, as it always is at ^/this time of the year. Heaps of earth marked the site offormer… … Plan I.—Palace of Sennacherib. The trenches dug under Mr. Rosss directions, in the south-em corner, opposite the town of Mosul, were still open. Thetwo chambers he had explored formed part of the great I.] UNDERGROUND EXCAVATIONS. 5 palace standing on this angle of the mound, already…
