| 1799 - 470 páginas
...the bafe, and fpiral at top. Each fide of the bafe meafures 162 feet. This immcnfe breadth diminishes abruptly; and a fimilar building has not unaptly been...feet in height, and forty in circumference at the bottom. On a higher ledge there is another row, conlifting of fifty-three fpires, of fimilar fhapc... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1800 - 612 páginas
...top. Each fide of the bafe meafures 161 feet. This immenfe breadth diminiflies abruptly; and a fimiJar building has not unaptly been compared in fhape to...feet in height, and forty in circumference at the bottom. On a higher ledge there is another row, confiding of fiftythree fpires, of fimilar fhape and... | |
| 1800 - 770 páginas
...immenfe breadth dimimíheí abruptly; and a (imiiar build. ing has not unaptly been compared in fhape io a large fpeaking trumpet. " Six feet from the ground...furrounds the bafe of the building ; on the plane of which arc fifty.feyen fmall fpires, of equal ftze, and eqnidiftant. One of them me afured twentyfcvcn feet... | |
| 1800 - 830 páginas
...bafe, and fpiral at top. Each fide of the bafe meafures ii>z feet. This immenfe breadth diminjihes abruptly ; and a fimilar building has not unaptly been compared in fhape to a large (peaking trumpet. " Six feet from the ground there is a wide ledge, which furrounds the bafe of the... | |
| Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1801 - 436 páginas
...excavation or aperture of any fort ; oâagonal at the bafe, and fpiral at the top. Six feet from tire ground there is a wide ledge, which furrounds the bafe of the building ; on the plane of which are 57 fmall fpires, of equal iize, and equidiftant. One of them meafured 27 feet in height, and 40 in... | |
| 1801 - 506 páginas
...b.ile, and (piral at top; each fide of the baie nieafnres ¡Ьг feet; this mímenle breadth diminifhes abruptly, and a fimilar building has not unaptly been compared in fhape to a large fpeaking-trumpet. " Six feet from the ground there is a wide projection that furrounds the bafe, on... | |
| Asiatic Society of Bengal - 1807 - 458 páginas
...the bafe, and fpiral at top. Each fide of the bafe meafures 162 feet. This immenfe breadth diminifhes abruptly ; and a fimilar building has not unaptly...which are fifty-feven fmall fpires, of equal fize, and equidillant. One of them meafured twentyfeven feet in height, and forty in circumference at the bottom.... | |
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