37. When the ancient texts, which describe the size of
Babylon and Thebes, are settled, the exaggerations reduced,
and the measures ascertained, we find that those famous
cities filled the great but not incredible circumference of
about twenty-five or thirty miles. Compare D'Anville, Mem.
de l'Academie, tom. xxviii. p. 235, with his Description de
l'Egypte, p. 201, 202.