 | 1828 - 722 pages
...Rich, speaking of the upper part of the pile, 1 is infinitely superior to any thing of the kind I hare ever seen ; and leaving out of the question any conjecture relative to the original destination of this ruin, the impression made by a sight of it, is, that it was a solid pile, composed in the ulterior... | |
 | Alexander Jamleson - 1821 - 456 pages
...the side of the pile a little below the summit is very clearly to be seen part of another brick wall, precisely resembling the fragment which, crowns the...still encases and supports its part of the mound. Tins is clearly indicative of another stage of greater extent. The masonry is infinitely superior to... | |
 | English literature - 1827 - 574 pages
...side of the pile, a little below the summit, is very clearly to be seen part of another brick wall precisely resembling the fragment which crowns the...greater extent. The masonry is infinitely superior to any thing of the kind I Uave ever seen; and, leaving out of the question any conjecture relative to... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - Iraq - 1827 - 602 pages
...side of the pile, a little below the summit, is very clearly to be seen part of another brick wall precisely resembling the fragment which crowns the...greater extent. The masonry is infinitely superior to any thing of the kind I have ever seen ; and, leaving out of the question any conjecture relative to... | |
 | Theology - 1836 - 544 pages
...masonry," says Mr. Rich, speaking of the upper part of the pile, " is infinitely superior to any thing of the kind I have ever seen ; and leaving out of...conjecture relative to the original destination of this ruin, the impression made by a sight of it, is, that it was a solid pile, composed in the interior... | |
 | Claudius James Rich - Babylon - 1839 - 494 pages
...the side of the pile a little below the summit is very clearly to be seen part of another brick wall, precisely resembling the fragment which crowns the...greater extent. The masonry is infinitely superior to any thing of the kind I have ever seen ; and leaving out of the question any conjecture relative to... | |
 | Claudius James Rich - Babylon - 1839 - 490 pages
...clearly indicative of another stage of greater extent. The masonry is infinitely superior to any thing of the kind I have ever seen ; and leaving out of...conjecture relative to the original destination of this ruin, the impression made by a sight of it is, that it was a solid pile, composed in the interior of... | |
 | John R. Miles - Bible - 1846 - 512 pages
...side of the pile, a little below th« summit, is very clearly to be seen part of another brick wall, precisely resembling the fragment which crowns the...of the mound. This is clearly indicative of another suvge of greater extent. The masonry is infinitely superior to any thing of the kind . I have ever... | |
 | William Sandys Wright Vaux - Assyria - 1850 - 488 pages
...brick wall precisely resembling the fragment which crowns the summit, and still encasing and supporting its part of the mound. This is clearly indicative of another stage of greater extent. Without forming any conjecture, as to what might have been its original construction, the impression... | |
 | 1850 - 544 pages
...brick wall precisely resembling the fragment which crowns the summit, and still encasing and supporting its part of the mound. This is clearly indicative of another stage of greater extent. ' Without forming any conjecture, as to what might have been its original construction, the impression... | |
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... feet high. In the side of the pile, a little below the summit, is very clearly to be seen part of another brick wall, precisely resembling the fragment which crowns the summit, but which still encases and supports its part of the mound. This is clearly... 
