 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1835 - 564 pages
...elevation of 1 98 feet, and on its summit is a solid pile of brick; thirty-seven feet high by twenty-eight in breadth, -diminishing in thickness to the top,...which it is built have inscriptions on them, and so excellent is the cement, which appears to be lime-mortar, that it is nearly impossible to extract one... | |
 | Theology - 1836 - 544 pages
...pile of brick 37 feet high by 28 in breadth, diminishing in thickness to the top, which is broken aud irregular, and rent by a large fissure extending through...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 it... | |
 | Ern. Frid. Car Rosenmüller - Asia, Central - 1836 - 706 pages
...figure to the elevation of 198 feet, and on its summit is a solid pile of brick, 37 feet high, by 28 in breadth, diminishing in thickness to the top, which...by small square holes, disposed in rhomboids. The fire-burnt bricks of which it is built have inscriptions on them ; and so excellent is the cement,... | |
 | Bible - 1836 - 710 pages
...198 feet, and on its summit is a solid pile of brick, 37 feet high by 28 in breadth, diminishing m thickness to the top, which is broken and irregular,...by small square holes, disposed in rhomboids. The fire-burnt bricks of which it is built have inscriptions on them ; and so excellent is the cement,... | |
 | 1848 - 508 pages
...figure to the elevation of 198 feet ; and on its summit is a solid pile of brick, 37 feet high by 28 in breadth, diminishing in thickness to the top, which...and irregular, and rent by a large fissure extending throagh a third of its height. It is perforated by small square holes, disposed in rhomboids. The fire-burnt... | |
 | 1837 - 486 pages
...ninety-eight feet, and on its summit is a solid pile of brick, thirty-seven feet high by twenty-eight in breadth, diminishing in thickness to the top, which...by small square holes, disposed in rhomboids. The íire-burnt bricks of which it is built have inscriptions on them ; and so excellent is the cement,... | |
 | William Fleming - 1838 - 612 pages
...ninety-eight feet, and on its summit is a solid pile of brick thirty -seven feet high by twenty-eight broad, diminishing in thickness to the top, which is broken...fissure extending through a third of its height." Sir RK Porter gives a different measurement : " On looking towards its eastern face, it extends in... | |
 | Claudius James Rich - Babylon - 1839 - 490 pages
...ninetyeight feet, and on its summit is a solid pile of brick, thirty-seven feet high by twenty-eight in breadth, diminishing in thickness to the top, which...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 it... | |
 | George Bush - Bible - 1839 - 406 pages
...feet, and on its summit is a solid pile of brick, 37 feet by 28 in breadth, diminishingtn hickness to the top, which is broken and irregular, and rent...by a large fissure extending through a third of its leight. The fire-burnt bricks have inscriptions on them, and so excellent is he cement, that it is... | |
 | 1841 - 488 pages
...ninety-eight feet, and on its summit is a solid pile of bricks, thirty-seven feet high, by twenty-eight feet in breadth, diminishing in thickness to the top, which...which it is built, have inscriptions on them ; and so excellent is the cement, which appears to be lime mortar, that it is nearly impossible to extract one... | |
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... in breadth, diminishing in thickness to the top, which is broken and irregular, and rent by a large fissure extending through a third of its height. 
