Note 473 — Chapter IV

In making his calculations, Professor Rawlinson has certainly forgotten to take into account the pier or section of wall that still stands upright upon the surface of the mound (Oppert, Expédition scientifique, vol. i. pp. 260, et seq.). It is clearly shown in our figure—Sir Henry Layard leaves us in no doubt on this score: "The Birs-Nimroud rises to a height of 198 feet, and has on its summit a compact mass of brickwork thirty-seven feet high by twenty-eight broad, the whole being thus 235 feet in perpendicular height," Discoveries, p. 495. Layard says, however, that the dimensions here given were taken from Rich, as he had no time to take measurements during his hurried visit. Ed.