 | William Fleming - 1838 - 612 pages
...masses of vitrified brick which arc seen BABEI» T HIC SCRIPTURE GAZETTEER. ou the top of the mount appear to have marked its summit since the time of...greater quantities, the weather having dissipated most of it in the course of so many revolving ages, and possibly portions of the exterior facing of... | |
 | Claudius James Rich - 1839 - 490 pages
...must have been complete. The immense masses of vitrified brick which are seen on the top of the mount appear to have marked its summit since the time of...possibly, portions of the exterior facing of fine brick may have disappeared at different periods. show that the ruins of Babylon in their present state... | |
 | William Goodhugh, William Cooke Taylor - 1841 - 744 pages
...nearly in the same state in which Alexander saw it, if we give any credit to the report that 10,000 men could only remove the rubbish, preparatory to...greater quantities, the weather having dissipated most of it in the course of so many revolving ages, and possibly portions of the exterior facing of... | |
 | Charles Anthon - 1841 - 800 pages
...must have been complete. The immense masses of vitrified brick which are Been on the top of the mount, appear to have marked its summit since the time of...and possibly portions of the exterior facing of fine brick may have disappeared at different periods." (Second Memoir on the Ruina of Babylon, p. 165, teqq.,... | |
 | John R. Miles - 1846 - 512 pages
...must have been complete. The immense masses of vitrified brick which are seen on the top of the mount appear to have marked its summit since the time of its destruction. Ths rubbish about its base was probably in much greater quantities, the weather having dissipated much... | |
 | Charles Anthon - 1848 - 1482 pages
...brick which are seen on the top of the mount, appear to have marked its summit since the time of Us destruction. The rubbish about its base was probably...and possibly portions of the exterior facing of fine brick may have disappeared at different periods." (Second Memoir on the limn* of Babylon, p. 165, .«•;/</.... | |
 | William Sandys Wright Vaux - 1850 - 490 pages
...must have been complete. The immense masses of vitrified brick which are seen on the top of the mount, appear to have marked its summit since the time of...many revolving ages : and possibly portions of the interior facing of fine brick may have disappeared at different periods." In the end of the year 1818,... | |
 | William Sandys Wright Vaux - 1851 - 568 pages
...must have been complete. The immense masses of vitrified brick which are seen on the top of the mount, appear to have marked its summit since the time of...rubbish about its base was probably in much greater quanti ties, the weather having dissipated much of it in the course of so many revolving ages : and... | |
 | Mrs. Warren (Eliza) - 1751 - 206 pages
...have been then complete. The immense masses of vitrified brick which are seen on the top of the mount, appear to have marked its summit since the time of...destruction. The rubbish about its base was probably in far greater quantity, the weather having dissipated much of it in the course of so many revolving ages... | |
 | John Farrar - 1852 - 692 pages
...must have been complete. The immense masses of vitrified brick which are seen on the top of the mount appear to have marked its summit since the time of...greater quantities; the weather having dissipated most of it in the course of so many revolving ages ; and, possibly, portions of the exterior facing... | |
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... men could only remove the rubbish, preparatory to repairing it, in two months. If indeed it required one half of that number to disencumber it, the state of dilapidation must have been complete. The immense masses of vitrified brick which are seen... 
