Ancient GeographyE.H. Butler & Company, 1860 |
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Page 47 - For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills...
Page 47 - Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof.
Page 136 - The outside of the edifice was encrusted with marble, and decorated with statues. The slopes of the vast concave which formed the inside were filled and surrounded with sixty or eighty rows of seats of marble, likewise covered with cushions, and capable of receiving with ease above fourscore thousand spectators.
Page 122 - Dianae una et altera, quae fuit ante istius adventum ornatissima, Minervae. in hac insula extrema est fons aquae dulcis, cui nomen Arethusa est, incredibili magnitudine, plenissimus piscium, qui fluctu totus operiretur, nisi munitione ac 119 mole lapidum diiunctus esset a mari.
Page 110 - Lycabettus, and at the distance of a mile from the latter, was the Acropolis, or citadel of Athens, a square craggy rock rising abruptly about 150 feet, with a flat summit of about 1000 feet long from east to west, by 500 feet broad from north to south.
Page 97 - ... this design. The project was revived by Julius Caesar, and was carried into effect by Augustus ; and Roman Carthage, built at a short distance from the former city, became the capital of Africa, and one of the most flourishing cities in the ancient world. In the fifth century it was taken by Genseric, and made the capital of the Vandal kingdom in Africa. It was retaken by Belisarius, but was finally captured and destroyed by the Arabs in AD 647. Its site is now desolate, marked only by a few...
Page 79 - ... deep questions where great names militate against each other ; where reason is perplexed ; and an appeal to authorities only thickens the confusion. For high and reverend authorities lift up their heads on both sides, and there is no sure footing in the middle. This point is, ' the great Serbonian bog, 'Twixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk.
Page 140 - The stone of which it is built is a mark of he great antiquity of the work ; it is not the peperino of Gabii and the Alban Hills, which was the common building-stone in the time of the Commonwealth ; but it is the
Page 82 - ... wall. It was divided into courts, each of which was surrounded by colonnades of white marble. Hero'dotus...
Page 47 - Strabo, i. 42.) It is uncertain at what time they emigrated to the coast of the Mediterranean ; but it must have been at a very early period, since Sidon was a great city in the time of Joshua.