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" 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... "
Universal History, Ancient and Modern: From the Earliest Records of Time, to ... - Page 327
by William Fordyce Mavor - 1802
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Universal history, ancient and modern, Volume 2

William Fordyce Mavor - 1804 - 378 pages
...for the mountains and forests of her own country, desired to have something like them at Baby Ion. They were four hundred feet square, and consisted...pile consisted of substantial arches upon arches, and was1 strengthened by % wall surrounding it on every side, twenty-t»vo feet thick. The floors were...
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Letters on Ancient History; exhibiting a summary view of the history ...

Anne Wilson - History, Ancient - 1809 - 332 pages
...terraces rising one above another, like the seats of a theatre, and carried up to the height of the .walls of the city, the ascent from terrace to terrace being by steps. THE government of this nation was monarchical, or rather despotic, and the crown hereditary. To render...
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A historical ... dictionary of the holy Bible, Volume 1

John Brown - 1810 - 642 pages
...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...substantial arches upon arches, and was strengthened with a surrounding wall of twenty-two feet thick. The floors on each terrace were laid in this order...
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A Dictionary of the Holy Bible: Containing an Historical Account ..., Volume 1

John Brown - Bible - 1811 - 748 pages
...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...substantial arches upon arches, and was strengthened with a surrounding wiJl of twenty-two feet thick, The floors on .each terrace were laid in this order...
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A Dictionary of the Holy Bible: Containing an Historical Account ..., Volume 1

James Wood - Bible - 1813 - 632 pages
...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,...substantial arches upon arches, and was strengthened with a surrounding wall of 22 feet thick. The floors on each terrace were laid in this order : first,...
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A Dictionary of the Holy Bible: Containing an Historical Account ..., Volume 2

John Brown - Bible - 1816 - 772 pages
...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 with a suri ouudnjg...
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The Automatical Camera-obscura: Exhibiting Scenes from Nature,delineated by ...

Thomas Towne - 1821 - 232 pages
...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...substantial arches upon arches, and was strengthened with a surrounding wall of twenty-two feet thick. The floors on each terrace were laid in this order...
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The automatical camera-obscura; exhibiting scenes from nature [&c.].

Thomas Towne - 1821 - 212 pages
...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...substantial arches upon arches, and was strengthened with a surrounding wall of twenty-two feet thick. The floors on each terrace were laid in this order...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ..., Volume 3

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 894 pages
...They are said to have contained л square of four plethra, or 400 feet, on each side ; and to have consisted of terraces one above another, carried up...substantial arches upon arches, and was strengthened hy a wall surrounding it on every side, 22 feet thick ; and the floors on each of them were laid in...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 3

1824 - 452 pages
...of terraces one above another carried up to the height of the wall of the city which was 350 feet, the ascent from terrace to terrace being by steps...surrounding it on every side, twenty-two feet thick ; and the floors on each of them were laid in this order ; first, on the tops of the arches was laid...
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