 | 1831 - 492 pàgines
...its foundation, and exhibiting on the summit of the ruinous heap, " immense fragments of brick-work, of no determinate figure, tumbled together and converted...solid vitrified masses, as if they had undergone the fiercest fire, or been blown up with gunpowder." It is, in fact, a burnt mountain, fused either by... | |
 | Thomas Maurice - 1816 - 452 pàgines
...built have inscriptions on them ; and so admirable is the cement, which appears to be lime-mortar, that, though the layers are so close together that...blown up with gunpowder, the layers of the bricks perfectly discernible, — a curious fact, and one for which I am utterly incapable of accounting.... | |
 | 1816 - 572 pàgines
...bricks whole. The other parts of the summit of this hill are occupied by immense fragments of brick-work of no determinate figure, tumbled together and converted...discernible, — a curious fact, and one for which I am utterly incapable of accounting. These, incredible as it may seem, are actually the ruins spoken of... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 570 pàgines
...Babel of Genesis is the Birs Nemroud of Mr. Rich *; and that " the immense fragments of brick-work of no determinate figure, tumbled together, and converted into solid vitrified masses," which occupy the summit of this vast artificial hill, and which are described by Captain Frederick... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 570 pàgines
...Babel of Genesis is the Birs Nemroud of Mr. Rich *; and that " the immense fragments of brick-work of no determinate figure, tumbled together, and converted into solid vitrified masses," which occupy the summit of this vast artificial hill, and which are described by Captain Frederick... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 788 pàgines
...whole. The other parts of the summit of this hill are occupied by immense fragments of brick-work, of no determinate figure, tumbled together and converted...discernible, — a curious fact, and one for which I am utterly incapable of accounting. " Round the Birs are traces of ruins to a considerable extent. To... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 768 pàgines
...immense fragments of brick-work, of no determinate figure, tumbled together and converted into K:t/ii/ vitrified masses, as if they had undergone the action...discernible, — a curious fact, and one for which I am utterly incapable of accounting. " Round the Birs are traces of niins to n considerable extent. To... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1827 - 602 pàgines
...whole. The other parts of the summit of this hill are occupied by immense fragments of brick-work, of no determinate figure, tumbled together, and converted...masses, as if they had undergone the action of the present fire, or been blown up with gunpowder, yet the layers of the bricks are perfectly discernible."*... | |
 | John Murray - 1831 - 324 pàgines
...admirable is the cement, which appears to be lime mortar, that, though the layers are close together, it is difficult to discern what substance is between...fire, or been blown up with gunpowder, the layers of brick being perfectly discernible ; a curious fact, and one for which I am utterly incapable of accounting."... | |
 | 1831 - 982 pàgines
...whole. The other parts of the summit of this hill are occupied by immense fragments of brick-work, the penalty of sin. In the deluge a world perished...faith became the " saving of his house " (Heb. xi. perfectly discernible : " a curious fact," says Mr. Rich, " and one for which I am utterly incapable... | |
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... whole. The other parts of the summit of this hill are occupied by immense fragments of brick-work, of no determinate figure, tumbled together and converted into solid vitrified masses... 
