 | Thomas Branagan - 1804 - 290 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 - 1813 - 538 pàgines
...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 - 1815 - 468 pàgines
...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 - 1815 - 464 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 - 1820 - 386 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 - 1829 - 362 pàgines
...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... 
