 | Charles Rollin - 1734 - 422 pages
...top of the arches were firft laid large flat ftones, fixteen $e! long, and four broad, and over them was a layer of reed, mixed with a great quantity of bitumen, over which were two rows of bricks, clofely cemented together by plaifter, and then over all were laid... | |
 | 1747 - 544 pages
...tops of the arches was laid a bed or paveme. of ftones 16 feet long, and four feet broad ; over this a layer of reed mixed with a great quantity of bitumen...and over this two courfes of brick, clofely cemented t gether with plafter ; and over all thefe were thick fheets lead, and on thefe the earth or mould... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1812 - 334 pages
...top of the arches were first laid large flat stones, sixteen feet long and four broad : over these was a layer of reed, mixed with a great quantity of bitumen, upon which were two rows of bricks, closely cemented together with plaster. The whole was covered with... | |
 | Humphrey Prideaux - 1815 - 468 pages
...top of the arches were first laid large flat stones, sixteen feet long, and four broad, and over them was a layer of reed 'mixed with a great quantity of bitumen, over which were two rows of bricks, closely cemented together by plaster, and then over all were laid... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 772 pages
...manner ; on the top of K arches were firft laid large flat ftones 16 feet long and 4 broad. Over them was a layer of reed mixed with a great quantity of bitumen ; ovel* which were two rows of bricks clofely cemented together by plafter, and over all were laid... | |
 | 1823 - 894 pages
...were laid in this order : First, on the tops of the arches was laid a bed or pavement of stones 16 feet long, and four feet broad; over this was a layer...with a great quantity of bitumen ; and over this two courses of brick, closely cemented together with plaster ; and over all these were thick sheets of... | |
 | 1824 - 452 pages
...them were laid in this order ; first, on the tops of the arches was laid a pavement of stones sixteen feet long, and four feet broad; over this was a layer of reeds, mixed with a great quantity of bitumen ; over this, two courses of brick, closely cemented together... | |
 | Patrick Fitzgerald - 1827 - 748 pages
...the top of the arches were first laid large flat stones, sixteen feet long and four broad. Over these was a layer of reed mixed with a great quantity of bitumen, upon which were two rows of bricks closely cemented together with plaster. The whole was covered with... | |
 | Charles McIntosh - 1828 - 626 pages
...flat stones, sixteen feet long and four broad, were first laid on the top of the arches ; over these was a layer of reed, mixed with a great quantity of bitumen, on which were two rows of bricks, closely cemented with plaster. The vhole was covered with thick sheets... | |
 | Robert Mignan - 1829 - 390 pages
...of the pillars were first placed large flat stones, sixteen feet long and four broad ; and over them was a layer of reed, mixed with a great quantity of bitumen, over which were two rows of bricks closely cemented together by plaster, and over all were thick sheets... | |
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On the top of the arches were first laid large flat stones, sixteen feet long and four broad, and over them was a layer of reed mixed with a great quantity of bitumen, over which were two rows of bricks, closely cemented together by plaster, and... 
