Travels Through Turkey in Asia, the Holy Land, Arabia, Egypt, and Other Parts of the World: ... Particular and Faithul Account of what is Most Remarkable in the Manners, Religion, Polity, Antiquities and Natural History of Those Countries with a Curious Description of Jerusalem ... and Other Places ...Fullarton, 1810 - 703 עמודים |
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עמוד 482
... pyramid , which does not end in a point , as mathematical pyramids do , and as it appears to those that view it from below , but in a square platform , consisting of nine large stones , besides two that are wanting at the angles . Each ...
... pyramid , which does not end in a point , as mathematical pyramids do , and as it appears to those that view it from below , but in a square platform , consisting of nine large stones , besides two that are wanting at the angles . Each ...
עמוד 483
... pyramids by their shadows , as we are informed by Pliny and Laertius . We descended the same way we went up , till we came to the entrance of this pyramid , which is sixteen steps from the bottom . It is about three feet high , and as ...
... pyramids by their shadows , as we are informed by Pliny and Laertius . We descended the same way we went up , till we came to the entrance of this pyramid , which is sixteen steps from the bottom . It is about three feet high , and as ...
עמוד 484
... pyramid above . Within this glorious hall stands a tomb , supposed to be that of Cheops or Chemmis , king of Egypt , the founder of this pyramid . It is of one entire piece of marble , hollowed , and uncovered at the top , and sounds ...
... pyramid above . Within this glorious hall stands a tomb , supposed to be that of Cheops or Chemmis , king of Egypt , the founder of this pyramid . It is of one entire piece of marble , hollowed , and uncovered at the top , and sounds ...
עמוד 485
... pyramid is , that the sides of it stand exactly facing the four quarters of the world , and consequently mark the true meridian of the place ; which precise position could not well have been owing to chance , but was in all probability ...
... pyramid is , that the sides of it stand exactly facing the four quarters of the world , and consequently mark the true meridian of the place ; which precise position could not well have been owing to chance , but was in all probability ...
עמוד 486
... pyramid ; this vast pile above three thousand years ago , it follows , that during so long a space of time there has been no alteration in the heavens in that respect , or ( which amounts to the same thing ) in the poles of the earth or ...
... pyramid ; this vast pile above three thousand years ago , it follows , that during so long a space of time there has been no alteration in the heavens in that respect , or ( which amounts to the same thing ) in the poles of the earth or ...
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