 | 1833 - 448 pages
...inhabitants are about thirty or forty poor families, who live in little huts made of earth, within the walls of a spacious court, which formerly enclosed a most...temple, dedicated to the Sun. This court is a square of 220 yards each aide, encompassed with & high and stately wall, adorned with pilasters both within and... | |
 | Joseph Taylor - 1838 - 672 pages
...inhabitants are about thirty or forty poor families, who live in little huts made of earth, within the walls of a spacious court, •which formerly enclosed a...temple, dedicated- to the Sun. This court is a square of 220 yards each side, encompassed with a high and stately wall, adorned with pilasters both within and... | |
 | 1846 - 872 pages
...inhabitants are abont thirty or forty poor families, who live in little huts made of earth, within the walls of a spacious court, which formerly enclosed a most...magnificent heathen temple, dedicated to the sun. (See Frontispiece.) This court is a square of 220 yards each side, encompassed with a high and stately... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1856 - 566 pages
...inhabitants are about thirty or forty poor families, who live ii> little huts made of earth, within the walls of a spacious court, which formerly enclosed a most...adorned with pilasters both within and without, to tinnumber of sixty-two on a side : and had not the Turks, out of a vain superstition, purposely beat... | |
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... space they take up, the city appears to have been of vast extent; but there are no vestiges of any walls remaining, nor is it possible to judge of the ancient figure of the place. The present inhabitants are about thirty or forty poor families, who... 