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
, with the smaller Rocks that lay by it in the Shape of Tributary Kings; the prodigious Basin, or artificial Lake, which took in the whole