...Euphrates, a broad, deep, swift stream, which rises in Armenia and empties itself into the Erythraean Sea. The city wall is brought down on both sides to the...is carried along each bank of the river a fence of blunt bricks. The houses are mostly three and four stories high; the streets all run in straight lines,...

...into two portions by the river which runs through the midst of it. This river is the Euphrates. . . . The city wall is brought down on both sides to the...along each bank of the river a fence of burnt bricks. The houses are mostly three and four stories high; the streets all run in straight lines; not only...

...course of the Euphrates when he took Babylon, 538 BC In the time of Herodotus himself, about BC 460, there were embankments to the river at Babylon ; for...hydraulic works of the first king of Egypt, Men or Menes, which were not only gigantic in themselves, but productive of the most important results to...

...sea. The city wall is brought down on both sides to the edge of the stream: thence, from the comers of the wall, there is carried along each bank of the river a fence of burnt bricks. The houses are mosdy three and four stories high; the streets all run in straight lines, not only those...

...Euphrates, a broad, deep, swift stream, which rises in Armenia, and empties itself into the Erythraean sea. The city wall is brought down on both sides to the...along each bank of the river a fence of burnt bricks. The houses are mostly three and four stories high; the streets all run in straight lines, not only...