[Footnote 101: Ctesias (apud Didor. Sicul. tom. i. l. ii. p.
115, edit. Wesseling) assigns 480 stadia (perhaps only 32
miles) for the circumference of Nineveh. Jonas talks of
three days' journey: the 120,000 persons described by the
prophet as incapable of discerning their right hand from
their left, may afford about 700,000 persons of all ages for
the inhabitants of that ancient capital, (Goguet, Origines
des Loix, &c., tom. iii. part i. p. 92, 93,) which ceased to
exist 600 years before Christ. The western suburb still
subsisted, and is mentioned under the name of Mosul in the
first age of the Arabian khalifs.]