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This conclusion is suggested partly by Sir H. Layard's discovery of considerable quantities of wood ashes in the palaces he excavated, partly by the evidence of ancient texts that wood was often used throughout this region to support the roofs at least of private houses.
Layard's fine collection is at present in England. LIZARDS. Iguana. It may be seen at noonday searching for ants and insects in the middle of the highway and along the fences; when disturbed, but by no means alarmed, by the approach of man, it moves off to a safe distance; and, the intrusion being at an end, it returns again to the occupation in which it had been interrupted.
The two volumes of Layard's Early Adventures proved a great success. The writer, the great Assyriologist, is better known as the author of Nineveh and Babylon. The book I was reading had been written when he was in his early twenties, but published for the first time forty years later.
Layard's speech was the great affair of the day. His evident earnestness and good faith make him eloquent, and stand him instead of oratorical graces. His views of the position of England and the prospects of the war were as dark as well could be; and his speech was exceedingly to the purpose, full of common-sense, and with not one word of clap-trap.
After Layard and Rassam, after Rawlinson and Botta, George Smith took flying trips to the site of Nineveh twice that he might gather the remaining fragments of the great library of Asshurbanabal, and he died in the field far from home. It was he that found among Layard's tablets the Babylonian account of the Deluge, so much like that in the Bible.
"Oh, no!" he answered with a faint smile; "nothing at all " "Not that you have been embracing her, for instance? That, I understand, is Eliza Layard's story." "No, no; I never did such a thing in my life." A little sigh of relief broke from Mary's lips. At the worst this was but an affair of sentiment.
The embankments which regulated the flow of the Euphrates and Tigris have given way, and at the present time the whole region round Babylon is marshy and malarious. See Dr. Berliner's Beiträge zur Geographie und Ethnographie Babyloniens; also Layard's Nineveh and Babylon, p. 469. Cf.
The book does not reach those for whom it is written, while of Layard's work at least 10,000 copies have been sold, exclusive of the sale in America. Arago announces that he will at last begin the printing of his long prepared but not yet published works. His health is deeply shattered.
None of the MSS. have this reading, nor is such a correction needed. See Saadyana, J. Q.R., vol. Guy Le Strange's The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate, 1905, also Layard's Nineveh and its Remains and Nineveh and Babylon. It will be seen that Benjamin speaks of the Shrine as a Synagogue.
Layard's first series of "Monuments," a preference was expressed for what may be called the Egyptian theory. In the Frontispiece of that work, and in the second Plate, containing the restoration of a palace interior, the entire bas-reliefs were represented as strongly colored.
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