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Bk. II. Ch. Iv. which the great hall stood. Indeed, among these ruins, nothing is more remarkable than these great flights of steps. The builders of those days were, so far as we know, the only people who really

understood the value of this feature. The Egyptians seem wholly to have neglected it and the Greeks to have cared little about it; but it was not so at Nineveh, where, so far we can understand