Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1857-02-12
The Tower CT Babel Not Discovered Yet.

The DnsToS Traveller STORY Ex-
PLAINED.--Wc are reluctant to dispcl So
agreeable an illusion as his discovery Of
the Tower Of Babel, bringing i. to Tic Sc
tcre ties. Of Lis 'o.ical and geographical
science; but the fact is, that til. researches
'of II. Place in the grcas mound u. Arbela.
though highly in.eres ias AMI valuable,
have 10 more to do with The Tower of Ba-
bel than they have with lie Bunker Hill
Monument. If NJ. Place supposcs that
he has discovered The Tower If Babel at
Arbeli. he must be, even fora Frcnchman.
unusually ignorant # the Iiole: and we
are 1T boss to conceive how the reverend
correspondent # the Iraueier could for a
moment have concurIed in such a suppo-
si.inu. His assertion that no locality
WAS assigned 10 the structure is dircc ~
coniradic;ed by the plain language Of the
Scrip ture. $50 The Lord scattered them
abroad from TIC f,ce Of all the earth; and
they left OIL To build tie ci ~; Merefore IS
tie name Of n called Bojd::" This con
clusively likes The locality. Babel and
+, Babvlon are the SINE Tie ely, winch il
Hebrew Is called Da5el. in Greek Is called
Babylon The Tower Of Babel means lne-
cisely The same thing as the Tower OF
Babylon Now, the sic oil Babylon is well
known. and there. ii anywhere. we must
look for Tie remains, ii remains exist, oi
the FUNGUS tower. AMI not NJ Arbeli,
which lies 800 miles north # Bibvlon.-
The fact that albumen is found ut Arbela
isof no importance. for biiumen Is found
at many places in the eighborhool of the
Tisres and Euphra,es. and is nowhere
more plentiful than at Hi..on the Eur hrates,
at no great distance above Babylon.
On the site of Babylon there i'll cxis:s
s'upendous ruins, pre-emnent among
which are two vast piles. called by the
Arabs the Mejelebe and the Birs Nlmrod
The travellers who have explored and de-
scribcl the ruins of Babylon, are diyl LED
in opinion as to which Of these plies is en-.
Il led to be consi Tered he remains Of tho
Tower of Babylon. Mr. Rich, by whom
they were first described in 1911, decided
in favor Of the Birs Nimlod. Bobert Kei
Por er, in 1918. advocated the claim q
the Munjebe; and in tits opiaioa the emf
nent eeographer, Major Kennel. coinciled
Mr.. Buckin, ham. a subsequent travel r.
camc to the same conclusion with Mr.
Rich. And no man can say au hoia.ive
Iy who is right or who is wrong Tn,
important question in all probability. al
mi g Of no decision.
, The mound a. Arbela. which Mr. Plac
: examined. and which the correspondent O
/, the Trareier imagined him to have discov
cred. has been long known. though we be
lieve. il has never before been explored :
: In 1871 j. was described by Fraser. in hi
work on MesoDotamia and Assyria, as :.
;, large, artificial mound. Sd or u fec
high. 80 yards in length. by go i
breadth" The Mjeebe II, Babylon is IS
!. feet high. or three or four times the hci Il
i Of the ruin at Arbcla. Throughout Assy
IT in and Messopo.amit there are multitude
$ Of ruins equal to. or greater than that
Arbela. wi quite as COOL claims TO |
considered the Tower of Babel. that is
) say with no claims at all. Fraser, whol
q we have already quoted, speaking Of the'