| George Bush - 1850 - 380 Seiten
...conical figure to the elevation of 198 feet, and on its summit is a solid pile of brick, 37 feet by 28 in breadth, diminishing in thickness to the top, which is broken and irregular, and rent by a large fisiure extending through a third of its leight. The fire-burnt bricks have inscriptions on them, and... | |
| Philip Henry Gosse - 1852 - 388 Seiten
...elevation of 198 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...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... | |
| Ruins - 1852 - 464 Seiten
...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...irregular, and rent by a large fissure extending through a thii-d of its height. It is perforated by small square holes disposed in rhomboids. The fine burnt... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1853 - 420 Seiten
...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,... | |
| Seven wonders - 1854 - 384 Seiten
...elevation of 198 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... | |
| Theodore Alois Buckley - 1854 - 332 Seiten
...ninty-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...• square holes disposed in. rhomboids. The fine burned bricks of which it is built have inscriptions on them ; and so admirable is the cement, which... | |
| John Cumming - 1854 - 396 Seiten
...and ninety-eight feet, and on its summit is a solid pile of brick, thirty-seven feet by twenty-eight in breadth, diminishing in thickness to the top, which...large fissure extending through a third of its height. The fire-burnt bricks have inscriptions on them, and so excellent is the cement that it is nearly impossible... | |
| John Cumming - 1854 - 396 Seiten
...thirty-seven feet by twenty-eight in breadth, diminishing in thickness to the top, which is brokenand irregular, and rent by a large fissure extending through a third of its height. The fire-burnt bricks have inscriptions on them, and so excellent is the cement that it is nearly impossible... | |
| John Kitto - 1855 - 676 Seiten
...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,... | |
| John Wilson (writer on astronomy.) - 1856 - 532 Seiten
...figure to the elevation of 198 feet, and on the summit is a solid pile of brick 37 feet high by 28 in breadth, diminishing in thickness to the top, which...through a third of its height. It is perforated by small holes disposed in rhomboids. " At the foot of the mound a step may be traced, scarcely elevated above... | |
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