South America - A General History And Collection Of Voyages And Travels - Volume 7 - By Robert Kerr
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ruined on every side, it has formed a great mountain, yet a considerable
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Being Ruined On Every Side, It Has Formed A Great Mountain, Yet A Considerable Part Of The Tower Is Still Standing, Compassed And Almost Covered Up By These Ruins.

It has been built of square bricks dried in the sun, and constructed in the following manner.

In the first place a course of bricks was laid, then a mat made of canes squared like the bricks, and daubed with earth instead of lime mortar; and these mats still remain so strong that it is wonderful considering their great antiquity. I have gone all round it without being able to discover any place where there had been a door or entrance, and in my opinion it may be about a mile in circumference or rather less. Contrary to all other things, which appear small at a distance and become larger the nearer they are approached, this tower appears largest when seen from afar, and seems less as you come nearer. This may be accounted for, as the tower stands in a very large plain, and with its surrounding ruins forms the only perceptible object; so that from a distance the tower and the mountains formed of its ruins make a greater shew than it is found to be on coming near.

SECTION III.

_Of Basora._

From Babylon I embarked in one of those small vessels which ply upon the Tigris between Babylon and Basora, which are built after the manner of foists or galliots, having a _speron_[122] and a covered poop.

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