| William Fordyce Mavor - 1802 - 396 pàgines
...hundred feet square, and consisted of terraces one above another, carried up to the height of the wall of the city ; the ascent from terrace to terrace being by steps ten feet wide. The whole pile consisted of substantial arches upon arches, and was strengthened by... | |
| William Fordyce Mavor - 1804 - 378 pàgines
...hundred feet square, and consisted of terraces, one above another,- carried up to the height of the wall of the city ; the ascent from terrace to 'terrace being by steps ten feet wide. The whole pile consisted of substantial arches upon arches, and was1 strengthened by... | |
| John Brown - 1810 - 642 pàgines
...palace. They contained a square of 400 feet on each side, and consisted of terraces, one above another, carried up to the height of the walls of the city...the ascent from terrace to terrace being by steps ten feet wide. The whole pile consisted of substantial arches upon arches, and was strengthened with... | |
| John Brown - 1811 - 748 pàgines
...They. | contained a square of 400 feet on each side, and consisted of terraces, one above another, carried up to the height of the walls of the city ; the asct'nt from terract to terrace being by steps ten feet wide. The whole pile consisted of substantial... | |
| James Wood - 1813 - 632 pàgines
...palace. They contained a square of 400 feet on each side, and consisted of terraces, one al>ove another, carried up to the height of the walls of the city...the ascent, from terrace to terrace, being by steps ten feet wide. The whole pile consisted of substantial arches upon arches, and was strengthened with... | |
| John Brown - 1816 - 772 pàgines
...feet on each side, and consisted of U-Ггасса, une ubove another, carried up to the height ol the walls of the city ; the ascent from terrace to terrace being, by steps ten feet wide. '1 He whole pile consisted ot'sub.uuiti«il aiches upon arches, and was strengthened... | |
| Thomas Towne - 1821 - 212 pàgines
...contained a square of four hundred feet on each side, and consisted of terraces, one above another, carried up to the height of the walls of the city...the ascent from terrace to terrace being by steps ten feet wide. The whole pile consisted of substantial arches upon arches, and was strengthened with... | |
| Thomas Towne - 1821 - 232 pàgines
...contained a square of four hundred feet on each side, and consisted of terraces, one above another, carried up to the height of the walls of the city...the ascent from terrace to terrace being by steps ten feet wide. The whole pile consisted of substantial arches upon arches, and was strengthened with... | |
| Emma Willard - 1822 - 102 pàgines
...scarcely less stupendous. They are said to have contained a square extending 400 feet on each side. They consisted of terraces rising one above another,...carried up to the height of the walls of the city. These terraces were supported on arches, and were watered from the Euphrates by means of engines. Large... | |
| 1823 - 894 pàgines
...each side ; and to have consisted of terraces one above another, carried up to the height of the wall of the city, the ascent from terrace to terrace being by steps ten feet wide. The whole pile consisted of substantial arches upon arches, and was strengthened hy... | |
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