 | Thomas Branagan - Black race - 1804 - 290 pages
...walls of the city. The ascent was from terrace to terrace, by stairs ten feet wide. The whole pile was sustained by vast arches, raised upon other arches,...another, and strengthened by a wall surrounding it, twenty-two feet thick. On the top of these arches were laid large flat stones, sixteen feet long, and... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1812 - 334 pages
...feet.) The ascent was from terrace to terrace, by stairs ten feet wide. The whole pile was suV tainecl by vast arches, raised upon other arches, one above...strengthened by a wall surrounding it on every side, of twenty -two feet thickness. On the top of the arches were first laid large flat stones, sixteen feet... | |
 | Elijah Parish - Bible - 1813 - 538 pages
...walls of the city. The ascent was from terrass to terras:* by stairs, ten feet wide, and the whole pile was sustained by vast arches, raised upon other arches, one above another and strengthened by a wall 22 feet thick. On the top of these arches were laid large flat stones, 16 feet long, and four broad;... | |
 | Humphrey Prideaux - Bible - 1815 - 468 pages
...terrace to terrace, by stairs ten feet wide. The whole pile was sustained by vast arches built upon arches, one above another, and strengthened by a wall,...it on every side, of twenty-two feet in thickness. The floors of every one of these terraces were laid in the same manner ; which was thus : On the top... | |
 | Humphrey Prideaux - Bible - 1815 - 464 pages
...thickness. The floors of every one of these terraces were laid in the same manner; which was thus: On the top of the arches were first laid large flat stones, sixteen feet Jong, and four broad, and over them was a layer of reed, mixed with a great quantity of bitumen, over... | |
 | Thomas Maurice - 1816 - 452 pages
...Diodorus, tells us, that * the whole pile was sustained by vast arches, built upon arches one upon another, and strengthened by a wall surrounding it on every side, of 22 feet thickness ;' but, when we come to examine the words of the original with due caution, we find... | |
 | Thomas Stackhouse - 1817 - 714 pages
...terrace to terrace, by stairs ten feet wide, and the whole pile was sustained by vast arches built upon arches, one above another, and strengthened by a wall, surrounding it on every side, of two and twenty feet in thickness ( >n the top of the arches were first laid large flat stones sixteen... | |
 | Charles Rollin - History, Ancient - 1820 - 386 pages
...ascent was from terrace to ter,-. a Diod I. ii p 99, 97. race, by stairs ten feet wide. The whole p3e was sustained by vast arches, raised upon other arches,...strengthened by a wall, surrounding it on every side, of 22 feet thickness. On the top of the arches were first laid large flat stones, sixteen feet long, and... | |
 | Patrick Fitzgerald - 1827 - 748 pages
...city. The ascent was from terrace to terrace, by stairs ten feet wide. The whole pile was sustained on vast arches, raised upon other arches, one above another,...strengthened by a wall surrounding it on every side, of twenty feet thickness. On the top of the arches were first laid large flat stones, sixteen feet long... | |
 | Charles Rollin, Robert Lynam - History, Ancient - 1829 - 362 pages
...walls of the city. The ascent was from terrace to terrace, by stairs ten feet wide. The whole pile was sustained by vast arches, raised upon other arches,...every side, of twenty-two feet in thickness. On the • Diod. I. ii. p. 96, 97. f Ibid. p. 98. 99. Sirah. 1. xvi. p. 738. Quint. Curt. 1. vc 1. top of... | |
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... that of the walls of the city. The ascent was from terrace to terrace by stairs ten feet wide. The whole pile was sustained by vast arches raised upon other arches, one above another, and strengthened by a wall, surrounding it on every side, of twenty-two... 
