THE TOWER OF BABEL.
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At the distance of six hours travelling from
Bagdad, on this side Of the city, are the remains
Of the Tower Of Babel. They stand in vast
plain which is mere desert, and are still about
goo feet in height.


8 The materials Of the little remains Of this
once famed Tswer, are unburnt bricks (now as
hard as stone) which in dimensions are IA inch
es by 10, and nearly inches thick.-There is
not any cement between them, either of bitumen
or Of mortar. About the distance Of every four
feet, from the bottom to the top, are layers Of
reeds, four inches thick.-By digging ten or
twelve inches into one ofthese pulled ont
by degrees handful of them which are as firm
and sound Except their being pressed fat as
when they were first inserted which the Jew
Rabies at Bagdad tell me, according to a ira
dition ftheir's, is very near four thousand two
hundred years. They call it Nimrod's Tower"