Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 11:3

3. And they said one to another, go to, let us make brick , and burn them throughly. And they had brick for Stone, and slime had they for Morter.

For in that low and fat soil they had no quarries of Stones. The Heathen Writers agree that Babylons Walls were made of Brick.

A kind of Clay called Bitumen, which, as Pliny testifieth, is liquid and glutinous, and fit to be used in Brick-buildings, as Strabo, Dion, and others note. And that Babylon was built with this, as is here said, we have the joynt and express Testimony of Berosus, Ct[illegible: 1+ letters]sias, Dion, Curtius, and many others.

Marginal references: Heb. a man said to his Neighbour.; Heb▪ burn them to a burning.