of which an old Author says, there were the Foundations to be seen in his time, which looked like a spacious Mountain; what could be more noble than the
Walls of Babylon
, its
hanging Gardens,
and its
Temple to Jupiter Belus
, that rose a Mile high by Eight several Stories, each Story a Furlong in Height, and on the Top of which was the
Babylonian Observatory;
I might here, likewise, take Notice of the huge Rock that was cut into the Figure of
Semiramis