The interior building, or assemblage of nurseries, chambers, and passages, has a flattish roof, without any perforation. By this contrivance, if by accident water should penetrate the external dome, the apartments below are preserved from injury The area... An Account of a Voyage to New South Wales - Page 319by George Barrington - 1810 - 472 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1814 - 984 pages
...behind them. The inferior building Or assemblage of nurseries, chambers, and passages, has a ilattish roof without any perforation. By this contrivance,...below are preserved from injury. The area has also a iattish flatti.ih floor, which is situated above the royal chamber. It is likewise water-proof, and... | |
| Mrs. Hughs (Mary) - 1827 - 196 pages
...another. The interior building, or assemblage of .nurseries, chambers, and passages, has a flatfish roof, without any perforation. By this contrivance,...the apartments below .are preserved from injury. The atea has #lsp a flatfish floor, which is situated above the royal chamber. It is likewise waterproof,... | |
| William Bingley - 1829 - 380 pages
...rapidly as they recede, and are soon lost among the innumerable chambers and nurseries behind them. The inferior building, or assemblage of nurseries,...preserved from injury. The area has also a flattish roof, which is situated above the royal chamber. It is likewise water-proof, and so constructed, that,... | |
| William Smellie - 1832 - 348 pages
...from many other extraordinary facts I have seen of them, is not very improbable." ternal dome, ihe apartments below are preserved from injury. The area...admittance, it runs off by subterraneous passages, which are of an astonishing magnitude. " I measured one of them," says Mr. Smeathman, "which was perfectly cylindrical,... | |
| William Smellie - 1835 - 380 pages
...these chambers and passages are arched, and contribute mutually to support one another. The interior building, or assemblage of nurseries, chambers, and...admittance, it runs off by subterraneous passages, which are of an astonishing magnitude. " I measured one of them," says Mr. Smeathman, " which was perfectly cylindrical,... | |
| William Smellie - 1846 - 380 pages
...venture tci say, from man) other extraordinary facts I have seen uf them, is not very improbable " ternal dome, the apartments below are preserved from injury....admittance, it runs off by subterraneous passages, which are of an astonishing magnitude. " I measured one of them," says Mr. Smeathman, " which was perfectly cylindrical,... | |
| J William Green - 1849 - 250 pages
...and are soon lost among the innumerable chambers and nurseries behind them. The inferior buildings, or assemblage of nurseries, chambers, and passages,...preserved from injury. The area has also a flattish roof, which is situated above the royal chamber. It is likewise water-proof, and so constructed, that,... | |
| William Smellie - 1851 - 376 pages
...venture to say, from manj other extraordinary facts I have seen of them, is not very improbable " ternal dome, the apartments below are preserved from injury....admittance, it runs off by subterraneous passages, which are of an astonishing magnitude. " I measured one of them," says Mr. Smeathman, " which was perfectly cylindrical,... | |
| William Smellie, John Ware - 1860 - 468 pages
...another. The interior building, or assemblage of nurseries, chambers, and passages, has a flatfish roof, without any perforation. By this contrivance,...below are preserved from injury. The area has also a flatfish floor, which is situated above the royal chamber. It is likewise water-proof, and so constructed,... | |
| John Ware - 1863 - 466 pages
...perforation. By this contrivance, if by accident water should penetrate the external dome, the apart„ ments below are preserved from injury. The area has also...admittance it runs off by subterraneous passages, which are of an astonishing magnitude. " I measured one of them," says Mr. Smeathman, " which was perfectly cylindrical,... | |
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