 | Henry White - 1848 - 704 Seiten
...and rent by a large fissure. Around it lie immense fragments of brick-work, of no determinate figure, and converted into solid vitrified masses, as if they had undergone the action of the fiercest fire. Nebuchadnezzar, about 600 B. c., formed it into that celebrated tower, which was reckoned among the... | |
 | Henry White - 1849 - 592 Seiten
...and rent by a large fissure. Around it lie immense fragments of brick-work, of no determinate figure, and converted into solid vitrified masses, as if they had undergone the action of the fiercest fire. Nebuchadnezzar, about 6OO B. c firmed it into that celebrated tower, which was reckoned among the wonders... | |
 | 1850 - 418 Seiten
...bricks whole. The other parts of the summit of this hill are occupied by immense fragments of brickwork of no determinate figure, tumbled together and converted...discernible, — a curious fact, and one for which I am utterly incapable of accounting. These, incredible as it may seem, are actually the ruins spoken of... | |
 | Edward Farr - 1850 - 346 Seiten
...says : " The other parts of the summit of this hill are occupied by immense fragments of brickwork, of no determinate figure, tumbled together, and converted...solid vitrified masses, as if they had undergone the fiercest fire, or been blown up with gunpowder, the layers of brick being perfectly discernible —... | |
 | George Bush - 1850 - 380 Seiten
...whole. The other parts if the summits of this hill are occupied iy immense fragments of brick-work of no determinate figure, tumbled together, and converted...solid vitrified masses, as if they had undergone the 1S6 BC 2247.J 187 9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel, k because the LORD did there confound... | |
 | John Kitto - 1850 - 478 Seiten
...that there are immense fragments of brickwork of no determinate figure tumbled together, and cemented into solid vitrified masses, as if they had undergone the action of the fiercest heat." We are naturally led to connect these appearances with the tradition that the Tower of Babel... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1850 - 378 Seiten
...one whole. The other parts of the summit of this hill are occupied by immense fragments of brickwork of no determinate figure, tumbled together, and converted into solid vitrified masses, the layers of brick being perfectly discernible. These ruins stand on a prodigious mound, the whole... | |
 | H. White - 1851 - 592 Seiten
...and rent hy a large fissure. Around it lie immense fragments of brick-work, of no determinate figure, and converted into solid vitrified masses, as if they had undergone the action of the fiercest fire. Nebuchadnezzar, about GOO B. c formed it into that celebrated tower, which was reckoned among the wonders... | |
 | Ruins - 1852 - 464 Seiten
...occupied by immense fragments of brick work of no determinate figure, tumbled together and con "verted into solid vitrified masses, as if they had undergone...gunpowder, the layers of the bricks being perfectly dis cernible, — a curious fact, and one for which I am utterly incapable of accounting. These, incredible... | |
 | Theodore Alois Buckley - 1852 - 436 Seiten
...masses, as if they had undergone the fiercest fire, or been blown up with gunpowder, the lavers of bricks being perfectly discernible — a curious fact, and one for which I am utterly incapable of accounting. The whole of this mound is itself a ruin, channelled by the weather,... | |
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... whole. The other parts of the summit of this hill are occupied by immense fragments of brick-work, of no determinate figure, tumbled together and converted into solid vitrified masses... 
