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Excerpt from Memoir on the Ruins of Babylon The site of babylon*tiaving never been either thoroughly explored or accurately described, 'i beg leave to offer to the associates of the Mines de l' Orient an account of my observations on that celebrated spot, the completion of which has been retarded by frequent interruptions from indisposition and offi cial occupation. I have frequently had occasion to remark the in adequacy of general descriptions to convey an ac curate idea of persons or places. I found this par ticularly exemplified in the present instance. From the accounts of modem travellers, I had expected to have found on the site of Babylon more, and less. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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