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Show C *9 ] , the City was a prodigious Lake, in Compafs 160 Miles, with a Canal from the River into it, to prevent Inunda- ; 'tions in the Summer. Round the old Tower this mighty Mafon and M o narch erected a Temple of two Furlongs on every Side,, or a Mile in Compafs, where he lodg'd the facred Tro- ;; phies of Solomon's Temple, and the golden Image 90 " Foot high, that he had confecrated in the Plains of Du- • ra, as were formerly in the Tower lodg'd many other • \ golden Images, and many precious Things, that were. • afterwards allfeifc'd by Xerxes, and Amounted to 21.Mil-- lions Sterling. And when all was finifh'd, King Nebuchadnezzar' walking in State in his hanging Gardens, and from thence * taking a Review of the whole City, proudly boatted of his mighty Work,. laying, Is not this Great Babylon9> that I have built for the Houfe of the Kingdom, by the : Might of my Power,. and for the Honour of my Maje- • \fly? But had his Pride immediately rebuk'd by a Voice Trom Heaven, and punifh'd by brutal Madnefs for feven "Years, until he gave Glory to the G o d of' Heaven,1 the: ;: Omnipotent Atchitect of the Univerfe, which he publhh- :: ed by a Decree thro' all his Empire, and died next Year,, ; before his Great Babylon was little more than half inhabited (tho'he had led many Nations captive for that Purpofe) nor Was it ever fully peopled 3 for in 21 Years-after his Death the Grand Cyrus conquer'd it, and re-- : mov'd the Throne to Shuflian InPerfia. 6thly, The Maufoleum, or T o m b of. Maufolus, King ; of Carta, between Ly$i* and Jonia, at Halicarnafju:-, on the Side of Mount Taurus in that Kingdom, at the Command of his mournful Widow Artemefia,. as tnc fplendid Testimony of her Love to him, built of the moffl curious Marble, in Circuit 411 Fo<*> in H e # t t p Gll~ bits, furrounded with: 26 Columns of the moil famous Sculpture, and the whole open on all Sides, with Arches •tlFoot wide, per&rm'd by the four principal Matter. £3 1 w . u «j,ir.fw,a * (^ • |
