 | Benjamin Wills Newton - 1849 - 164 Seiten
...It is sufficient to say that it is a mound of an oblong figure — its total circumference being 762 yards. At the eastern side, it is cloven by a deep furrow, and is not more than 50 or 60 feet high — but at the western, it rises in a conical figure to the elevation of one hundred... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1850 - 378 Seiten
...works of art. " The Birs Nimroud is a mound of an oblong form, the total circumference of which is 762 yards. At the eastern side it is cloven by a deep...than fifty or sixty feet high; but at the western side it rises in a conical figure to the elevation of 198 feet, and on its summit is a solid pile of... | |
 | Edward Farr - 1850 - 346 Seiten
...venerable pile. 'The Birs Nemroud is a mound of an oblong form, the total circumference of which is 762 yards. At the eastern side, it is cloven by a deep...and is not more than fifty or sixty feet high ; but on the western side, it rises in a conical figure, to the elevation of 198 feet; and on its summit... | |
 | George Bush - 1850 - 380 Seiten
...Birs Nimrod/ says Mr. Rich, ' is a mound of an obiong form, the total circumference of which is 762 yards. At the eastern side it is cloven by a deep furrow, and is not more than 50 or 60 feet high : but on the western side it rises in a conical figure to the elevation of 198 feet,... | |
 | Ruins - 1852 - 464 Seiten
...Nimroud is a mound of an oblong figure, the total circumference of which is seven hundred and sixty-two yards. At the eastern side it is cloven by a deep...at the western it rises in a conical figure to the ele BIRS NIMRUUD. Page 30. vatic/n of one hundred and ninety-eight feet, and on its summit is a solid... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1852 - 388 Seiten
...works of art. " The Birs Nimroud is a mound of an oblong form, the total circumference of which is 762 yards. At the eastern side it is cloven by a deep...than fifty or sixty feet high ; but at the western side it rises in a conical figure to the elevation of 198 feet, and on its summit is a solid pile of... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 420 Seiten
...description. " The Birs-Nimrud is a mound of an oblong form, the total circumference of which is 762 yards. At the eastern side it is cloven by a deep furrow, and is not more than 50 or 60 feet high ; but on the western side it rises in a conical figure to the elevation of 198 feet... | |
 | Theodore Alois Buckley - 1854 - 332 Seiten
...Nemroud is a mound of an oblong figure, the total circumference of which is seven hundred and sixty-two yards. At the eastern side it is cloven by a deep...conical figure to the elevation of one hundred and ninty-eight feet ; and on its summit is a solid pile of brick, thirty-seven feet high by twenty-eight... | |
 | Seven wonders - 1854 - 384 Seiten
...ruin stands. The Birs Nemroud is a mound of an oblong figure, the total circumference of which is 762 yards. At the eastern side it is cloven by a deep...it rises in a conical figure, to the elevation of 198 feet; and on its summit is a solid pile of brick, thirty-seven feet high by twenty-eight in breadth,... | |
 | John Cumming - 1854 - 396 Seiten
...Rich, ' is a mound of an obloag form, the total circumference of which is seven hundred and sixtytwo yards. At the eastern side it is cloven by a deep...and is not more than fifty or sixty feet high ; but on the western side it rises in a conical figure to the elevation of one hundred and ninety-eight feet,... | |
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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. 
