Note 78 — Chapter I · CIVIL AND MILITARY ARCHITECTURE.
Walter Armstrong translation
Botta, Monument de Ninive, vol. v. p. 21. Oppert, Expédition, vol. i. p. 292. Layard, vol. ii. p. 243. The English explorers have found traces of some external works and of a ditch which is now filled with the waters of the Khausser. Rawlinson, The Five Great Monarchies, vol. i. pp. 259–261.