| 710 pages
...Mujclibe, rpeaoing overturned; they sometimes also apply this term to the mounds uj the. Kasr. Il is of » an oblong shape, irregular in its height and the measurement of its sides. idacb face the cardinal points; tit* .nOMlierri aide1- being two hundred in length, the southern two... | |
| Thomas Maurice - 1816 - 452 pages
...Mujelibe, meaning overturned; they sometimes also apply this term to the mounds of the Kasr. It is of an oblong shape, irregular in its height and the measurement...face the cardinal points ; the northern side being two hundred yards in length, the southern two hundred and nineteen, the eastern one hundred and eighty-two,... | |
| 1816 - 572 pages
...writers. The ensuing passage contains an account of the general appearance of this mass : ' It is of an oblong shape, irregular in its height and the measurement...face the cardinal points; the northern side being two hundred yards in length, the southern two hundred and nineteen, the eastern one hundred and eighty-two,... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1816 - 514 pages
...Mujelibe,) meaning overturned; they sometimes also apply this term to the mounds of the Kasr. It is of an oblong shape, irregular in its height and the measurement of its sides, which tace the cardinal points ; the northern side being two hund red yards in length, the southern two hundred... | |
| George Stanley Faber - 1818 - 486 pages
...(according to the vulgar Arab pronunciation of these parts) Mujelibe, meaning Overturned. It is of an oblong shape, irregular in its height and the measurement...the southern 219, the eastern 182, and the western 1 36 ; the elevation of the south-east or highest angle, 141 feet. The western face, which is the least... | |
| Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 768 pages
...Mujelibe, meaning-overturned; they sometimes also apply this term to the mounds of the Kasr. It is of an oblong shape, irregular in its height and the measurement...western 136; the elevation of the south-east, or highest augle, 141 feet. The western face, which is the least elevated, is the most interesting, on account... | |
| Augustin Calmet - 1832 - 1060 pages
...according to the vulgar Arab pronunciation of those parts, Mujelibè,) meaning overturned. It is of an oblong shape, irregular in its height and the measurement...face the cardinal points; the northern side being two hundred yards in length ; the southern two hundred and nineteen ; the eastern one hundred and eighty-two... | |
| 1836 - 544 pages
...pronounced it to be the tower of Babel ; an error which subsequent travellers have confirmed. It is of an oblong shape, irregular in its height and the measurement...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... | |
| William Carpenter - 1836 - 776 pages
...according to the vulgar Arab pronunciation of these parts, Mujelibe), meaning overturned. It is of an oblong shape, irregular in its height and the measurement...face the cardinal points ; the northern side being two hundred yards in length; the southern two hundred and nineteen ; the eastern one hundred and eighty-two... | |
| Claudius James Rich - 1839 - 494 pages
...Mujelibe, meaning overturned ; they sometimes also apply this term to the mounds of the Kasr. It is of an oblong shape, irregular in its height and the measurement...face the cardinal points ; the northern side being two hundred yards in length, the southern two hundred and nineteen, the eastern one hundred and eighty-two,... | |
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