 | Charles Rollin - 1774 - 536 sivua
...firft laid large flat ftones, fix teen feet long, and four broad : Over thefe was • layer of reed, mixed with a great quantity of bitumen, upon which were two rows of bricks, clofely cemented together with plaiiter. The whole was covered with thick (beets of lead, upon which... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1812 - 334 sivua
...arches, one above another, and strengthened by a wall surrounding it on every side, of twenty -two feet thickness. On the top of the arches were first laid...feet long and four broad : over these was a layer of reed, mixed with a great quantity of bitumen, upon which were two rows of bricks, closely cemented... | |
 | Humphrey Prideaux - 1815 - 468 sivua
...thickness. The floors of every one of these terraces were laid in the same manner ; which was thus : On the top of the arches were first laid large flat stones, sixteen feet long, and four broad, and over them was a layer of reed 'mixed with a great quantity of bitumen, over which were two rows... | |
 | Humphrey Prideaux - 1815 - 464 sivua
...thickness. The floors of every one of these terraces were laid in the same manner; which was thus: On the top of the arches were first laid large flat stones, sixteen feet Jong, and four broad, and over them was a layer of reed, mixed with a great quantity of bitumen, over... | |
 | 1816 - 740 sivua
...on the tops of the arches was laid a pavement of (tones 16 feet long, and 4 feet broad ; over this was a layer of reeds, mixed with a great quantity of bitumen ; over this two courfes of brick, clofely cemented together with plafter; over all thefe were thick... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 750 sivua
...on the tope of the arches was laid a pavement of (tones 16 feet long, and 4 feet braad ; over this was a layer of reeds, mixed with a great quantity of bitumen ; over this two courfes of brick, rlolMy cemented together with plafter; over all thef; were thick... | |
 | Thomas Stackhouse - 1817 - 714 sivua
...and strengthened by a wall, surrounding it on every side, of two and twenty feet in thickness ( >n the top of the arches were first laid large flat stones sixteen feet long and four broad ; over them was a la}er of reed, mixed with a great quantity of bitumen ; over this were two rows of brick... | |
 | Charles Rollin - 1820 - 386 sivua
...other arches, one above another, and strengthened by a wall, surrounding it on every side, of 22 feet thickness. On the top of the arches were first laid...were two rows of bricks, closely cemented together with plaster. The whole was covered with thick sheets of lead, upon which lay the mould of the garden.... | |
 | Charles Rollin - 1800 - 472 sivua
...were firft laid large flat ftones, fixteen feet long, and four broad : over thefe was a layer of reed, mixed with a great quantity of bitumen, upon which were two rows ot bricks, clofely cemented together with plaifter. The whole was covered with thick fheets of lead,... | |
 | 1824 - 452 sivua
...tops of the arches was laid a pavement of stones sixteen feet long, and four feet broad; over this was a layer of reeds, mixed with a great quantity of bitumen ; over this, two courses of brick, closely cemented together with plaster; overall these were thick... | |
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... thickness. On the top of the arches were first laid large flat stones, sixteen feet long, and four broad : over these was a layer of reeds, mixed with a great quantity of bitumen, upon which were two rows of bricks, closely cemented together with... 
