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At either extremity of the bridge was a royal palace, that in the eastern city being the more magnificent of the two. The city was situated on both sides of the river Euphrates, and the two parts were connected together by a stone bridge five stades (above 1000 yards) long and 30 feet broad. Nearly five times the size of London! It is evident that this vast space cannot have been entirely covered with houses.
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Taking the lowest estimate of the extent of the circuit, we shall have for the space within the rampart an area of above 100 square miles (George Smith, in his "Assyrian Discoveries," differs entirely from all these estimates, making the circuit of the city but eight miles.) Perhaps Herodotus spoke of the outer wall, which could be traced in his time. Curtius 368, of Clitarchus 365 and of Ctesias 360 stades (40 miles). The estimate of Herodotus and of Pliny is 480 stades (60 Roman miles, 53 of our miles) of Strabo 385, of Q. With respect to the exact extent of the circuit they differ. Topography of BabylonĪll the ancient writers appear to agree in the fact of a district of vast size, more or less inhabited having been enclosed within lofty walls and included under the name of Babylon. The first rise of the Chaldean power was in the region close upon the Persian Gulf thence the nation spread northward up the course of the rivers, and the seat of government moved in the same direction, being finally fixed at Babylon, perhaps not earlier than B.C, 1700. ( confusion), Bab'ylon (Greek form of Babel), is properly the capital city of the country which is called in Genesis Shinar, and in the later books Chaldea, or the land of the Chaldeans.