 | 1747 - 544 pages
...faid to have contained a fquare of four plethra r, or 400 feet, on each fids ; and to have confined of terraces one above another, carried up to the height...terrace being by fteps ten feet wide. The whole pile confifted of fubftantial arches upon arches, and was ftrenoth. f Dan. i. 2. 2 Chron. xxxvi. 7. e See... | |
 | William Guthrie, John Gray - 1764 - 590 pages
...are faid to have contained a fquare of four plethra, or 400 feet on each fide, and to have confifted of terraces one above another, carried up to the height...city, the afcent from terrace to terrace being by flairs ten feet wide. The whole pile confifled of fubflantial arches upon arches, and was ftrengthened... | |
 | Alexander Bicknell - 1791 - 546 pages
...They are faid to have contained a fquare of four hundred feet on each fide, and to have confifted H of of terraces, one above another, carried up to the height of the wall of the city. This extraordinary pile of building confifted of fubftantial arches upon arches, compofed of brick,... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1802 - 396 pages
...country, desired to have something like them at Babylon, They were four hundred feet square, and consisted of terraces one above another, carried up to the height of the wall of the city ; the ascent from terrace to terrace being by steps ten feet wide. The whole pile consisted of substantial... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1804 - 378 pages
...desired to have something like them at Baby Ion. They were four hundred feet square, and consisted of terraces, one above another,- carried up to the height of the wall of the city ; the ascent from terrace to 'terrace being by steps ten feet wide. The whole pile consisted of substantial... | |
 | John Brown - 1810 - 642 pages
...Nebuchadnezzar built them in his new palace. They contained a square of 400 feet on each side, and consisted of terraces, one above another, carried up to the height of the walls of the city ; the ascent from terrace to terrace being by steps ten feet wide. The whole pile... | |
 | 1816 - 740 pages
...are faid to have contained a fquare of four plethra, or 400 feet, on each fule; and to have confilted of terraces one above another, carried up to the height...the city, the afcent from terrace to terrace being \}V fteps ten feet wide. The whole pile contjfted of fubftantial arches upon arches, and was (trenglliencd... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 750 pages
...faid to have contained a fquare of four plethra, or 400 feet, on each fide ; r.nd to have confided of terraces one above another, carried up to the height...wall of the city, the afcent from terrace to terrace b^ing by ftops ten feet wide. The whole pile confiitcd of f jbilantial arches upon arches, and was... | |
 | 1833 - 636 pages
...coutained a square of four hundred feet on each side ; and to have consisted of terraces one ahove another, carried up to the height of the wall of the city, the ascent from terrace to terrace heing hy steps ten feet wide. The whole pile consisted of suhstantial... | |
 | Thomas Towne - 1821 - 212 pages
...stupendous than they were. They contained a square of four hundred feet on each side, and consisted of terraces, one above another, carried up to the height of the walls of the city ; the ascent from terrace to terrace being by steps ten feet wide. The whole pile... | |
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... consisted of terraces one above another, carried up to the height of the wall of the city, the ascent from terrace to terrace being by steps ten feet wide. The whole pile consisted of substantial arches upon arches, and was strengthened by a wall... 
