 | John Wilson - 1856 - 524 Seiten
...height, and the measurement of its sides, which face the cardinal points ; the northern side being 200 yards in length, the southern 219, the eastern 182,...appearance of building it presents. Near the summit it appears a low wall, with interruptions, built with unburnt bricks mixed up with chopped straw or... | |
 | John Wilson (writer on astronomy.) - 1856 - 532 Seiten
...the measurement of its sides, which face the cardinal points ; the northern side being 200 yards ih length, the southern 219, the eastern 182, and the...appearance of building it presents. Near the summit it appears a low wall, with interruptions, built with unburnt bricks mixed up with chopped straw or... | |
 | John Kitto - 1855 - 676 Seiten
...DrurinR mailo on the upoi, hy JB Fraser, Esq. CHAP. XI.] GENESIS. surement of that on the north being 200 s possession. 29 If And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city ; while the elevation of the highest or south-east angle is 141 feet. The summit is a broad, uneven... | |
 | National cyclopaedia - 1879 - 702 Seiten
...Rich buildings, about 700 feet on each side. ' The WM satisfied of its being in reality a Babylonian western face, which is the least elevated, is the...it appears a low wall, with interruptions, built of unbumt bricks mixed up with chopped straw or reeds, and cemented with clay-mortar pf great thickness,... | |
 | Hermann Vollrat Hilprecht - 1903 - 956 Seiten
...states correctly that this term is sometimes also applied to the second mound, El-Qasr. forty-one feet.1 The western face, which is the least elevated, is...account of the appearance of building it presents." Rich regarded this conspicuous mound as part of the royal precincts, possibly the hanging gardens.... | |
 | Hermann Vollrat Hilprecht - 1904 - 688 Seiten
...states correctly that this term is sometimes also applied to the second mound, El-Qasr. forty-one feet.1 The western face, which is the least elevated, is...account of the appearance of building it presents." Rich regarded this conspicuous mound as part of the royal precincts, possibly the hanging gardens.... | |
 | William Heude - 1993 - 292 Seiten
...hundred and thirty-six ; the elevation of the SE or highest angle " being one hundred and forty-one feet. The western face, which is " the least elevated, is the most interesting on account of the appear" ance of building it presents. Near the summit of it appears a low " wall, with interruptions,... | |
 | 1815 - 682 Seiten
...southeast or highest angle, one hundred and forty-one feet. The western face, which is the least elevati-d, is the most interesting on account of the appearance...bricks, mixed up with chopped straw or reeds, and ce-, mented with clay-mortar of great thickness, having between every layer a layer of reeds ; and... | |
 | 1836 - 1048 Seiten
...height and the measurement of its sides, which face the cardinal points ; the northern side being 200 yards in length ; the southern 219 ; the eastern 182 ; and the western 136; the elevation of the south east or highest angle, 141 feet. The western face, which is the least elevated, is the most interesting... | |
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The western face, which is the least elevated, is the most interesting on account of the appearance of building it presents. Near the summit of it appears a low wall, with interruptions, built of unburnt bricks, mixed up with chopped straw or reeds, and... 
