 | Walter Keating Kelly - 1844 - 472 páginas
...on a supper, could be satisfied with no other existing pastime than this. Towards the mountain, SSW of the city, some fragments of the aqueducts remain....gems, cornelians, and rings are frequently found.* On the highest part of the rocks within the fortifications, and rather nearer the west than the east... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1844 - 514 páginas
...Bab Bablous, or the gate of St. Paul. There are some remains of ancient aqueducts and bridges ; and, after heavy rains, antique marble pavements are visible in many parts of the towns ; and gems, coins, cornelians, and rings, are very frequently found. The Christian interest connected... | |
 | John Kitto - 1845 - 932 páginas
...its turrets, vaults, and cisterns. Toward the mountain south-south-west of the city some fragment* of the aqueducts remain. After heavy rains antique...are visible in many parts of the town ; and gems, camel ians, and rings are frequently found. The present town stands on scarcely one-third of the area... | |
 | John Kitto - 1851 - 922 páginas
...east end of tlie western hill are the remains of a fortress, with its turrets, vaults, and cisterns. Toward the mountain south-south-west of the city some...antique marble pavements are visible in many parts of tlie town : and gems, camelians, and rings are frequently found. The present town stands on scarcely... | |
 | John Kitto - 1854 - 928 páginas
...of a fortress, with its turrets, vaults, and cisterns. Toward tlie mountain south-south-west of tlie city some fragments of the aqueducts remain. After...antique marble pavements are visible in many parts of tlie town ; and gems, camelians, and rings are frequently found. The present town stands on scarcely... | |
 | REV. CHARLES BULLOCK - 1866 - 724 páginas
...Bab Bablous, or the gate of St. Paul. There are some remains of ancient aqueducts and bridges ; and after heavy rains, antique marble pavements are visible in many parts of the town ; and gems, coins, cornelians, and rinys are тегу frequently found. HEAET OHEEE ГОЕ HOME SOEEOW. "THE SONO... | |
 | John McClintock, James Strong - 1867 - 982 páginas
...east end of the western hill are the remains of a fortress, with its turrets, Taults, and cisterns. Toward the mountain south-south-west of the city some...are visible in many parts of the town ; and gems, carnelians, and rings are frequently found. The present town stands on scarcely one third of the area... | |
 | Moses Wolcott Redding, Author of Guide to Mount Moriah - 1875 - 570 páginas
...earthquakes have nearly demolished this part of it. After heavy rains, antique marble pavements are risible in many parts of the town, and gems, cornelians, and rings are frequently found. During the present year — 1872 — a terrible earthquake overthrew a part of the city, and destroyed... | |
 | John McClintock - 1891 - 970 páginas
...turrets, vaults, and cisterns. Toward the mountain south-south-west of tho city some fragments of tho aqueducts remain. After heavy rains antique marble...are visible in many parts of the town ; and gems, carnelians, and rings are frequently found. The present town stands on scarcely one third of the area... | |
 | John McClintock, James Strong - 1896 - 988 páginas
...east end of the western hill are the remains of a fortress, with its turrets, vaults, and cisterns. Toward the mountain south-south-west of the city some fragments of the aqueducts remain. After heavy raini antique marble pavements are visible in many parti of the town ; and gems, carneli.ins, and rings... | |
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At short intervals 400 high square towers are built up in it, containing a staircase and two or three chambers, probably for the use of the soldiers on duty. At the east end of the western hill are the remains of a fortress, with its turrets, vaults,... 
