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Show THE CITY OF BABYLON. I A Marvelous Town Tliut Hun Lain In j Itulng Muny Centuries. According to Herodotus the an-. cieni city 01 uaDyion stoou on a broad, level plain, and was an exact ex-act square of fourteen miles each way, making the entire circuit of the city fifty-six miles. Jt wa protected by both a wall and a moat, the latter being broad and claep and kept constantly filled with water. But the wall was the wonder of wonders, being 93 feet in width and an even 200 feet in ; height. This monster barrier was of solid brass, the lintels and side pieces being in bronze. Cross j walls ran along the banks of the ! Euphrates, each provided with twenty-five gates, which corres-, corres-, ponded to the number of streets : running in each direction from the river. The most remarkable edi-I edi-I (ice inside the wall was the Temple Tem-ple of Bel, a pyramid of "eight square stadia. On the summit of this pyramid stood a pure gold image of Bel -10 feet high, two other smaller ligures of the same precious metal and a golden table -10 feet luiiff and 1 fi i'n.pt wide. This wnn- derful city first came prominently into the history of the world in the year 747 B. C.f but since Alexander the Great it has been a ruin, the site having at one time been entirely en-tirely lost. |