[185] Loftus, Warka, its Ruins, &c. p. 10.
[186] Place, Ninive, vol. i. pp. 29 and 248.
[187] Taylor, Notes on Abou-Sharein and Tell-el-Lahm (Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. xv. p. 408).
[188] Botta, Monument de Ninive, vol. v. p. 58.
[189] 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).
[190] Taylor, Notes on the Ruins of Mugheir (Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society), vol. xv. pp. 268-269.
[191] At Khorsabad the average height of the alabaster lining is about ten feet; above that about three feet of brick wall remains.
[192] Layard, Nineveh, vol. i. pp. 127 and 350; vol. ii. pp. 40 and 350. As to the traces of fire at Khorsabad, see Botta, Monument de Ninive, vol. v. p. 54.
[193] Layard, Nineveh, vol. ii. pp. 256-264.
[194] Loftus, Travels and Researches, pp. 181-183.