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Show [ .*.« 1 Gates of Brafs, or 25 a-Side, and 250 Towers 10 Foot higher than the Walls. From the laid 25 Gates, in each Side, went 25 Streets in ftreight Lines, or in all 50 Streets, each 15 Miles long, with four half Streets next the Walls, each 2C0 Foot broad, as the entire -Streets were 150 Foot broad: And fo the whole City was thus cut out into 676 Squares, each being two Miles and a Quarter m Compals $ round which were the Houfes built three or four Stories high, well adorn'd, and accommodated with Yards, Gardens, gfr. _ A Branch ot the Euphrates run through the Middle of it from North to South, over which, in the Heart of the City, was built a ftately Bridge in Length a Furlong, and 50 Foot in Breadth, by wonderful Art, for fupplying the Want of a Foundation in the River. At the two Ends of this Bridie were two magnificent Palaces-, the oKI Paiacej the Seat of ancient Kings, at the Eaft-end, upon the Ground of four Squares j and the new Palace at the Weft-end, built by Nebuchadnezzar, upon*the Ground of nine Squares, with hanging Gardens (fo much celebrated by the Greeks) where the loftiest Trees could grow as in the Fields, erected into a Square of 4.00 Foot on each Side, carried up by Terraces, and fuftain'd by vaft Arches built upon Arches, until the highest Terrace equall'd the Height of the City-Walls, with a curious Aqueduct to water the whole Gardens. Old Babel improve!, ftocd on the East-fide of the River, and the new T o w n on the Weft-fide, much larger than the old, and built in order to make this Capital exceed old Ni-neveh, tho' it never had fo many Inhabitants by one Half. The River was begirt with Banks of Brick, as thick a^ the City-Walls, in Length twenty Miles, viz. fifteen Miles within the City, and two Miles and a Half above and bdowit. to keep the Water within its Channel $ and each Street that crofs'd the River had a brazen Gate leading down to the Water on both Banks 5 and Weft of the .1 |