Note 189 — Chapter II
Walter Armstrong translation
Niebuhr (Voyage en Arabie, vol. ii. p. 235) noticed this, and his observations have since been confirmed by many other visitors to the ruins of Babylon. Ker Porter (vol. ii. p. 391) noticed them in the ruins of Al-Heimar. See also Taylor on "Mugheir," &c. (Journal, &c. vol. xv. p. 261). At Birs-Nimroud these conduits are about nine inches high and between five and six wide. They are well shown in the drawing given by Flandin and Coste of this ruin (Perse ancienne et moderne, pl. 221. cf. text 1, p. 181).