 | Austen Henry Layard - 1849 - 474 pàgines
...steep, and thus avoided the necessity of removing much earth. We came almost immediately to a wall f , bearing inscriptions in the same character as those...returned to the village well satisfied with their result. It was now evident that buildings of considerable extent existed in the mound ; and that although some... | |
 | Austen Henry Layard - 1849 - 408 pàgines
...side of the mound, which was here very steep, and thus avoided the necessity of removing much earth. We came almost immediately to a wall,* bearing inscriptions...pieces as soon as uncovered. Night interrupted our labors. 1 returned to the village well satisfied with their result. It was now evident that buildings... | |
 | Austen Henry Layard - 1849 - 386 pàgines
...side of the mound, which was here very steep, and thus avoided the necessity of removing much earth. We came almost immediately to a wall,* bearing inscriptions...threatened to fall to pieces as soon as uncovered. IVight interrupted our labors. 1 returned to the village well satisfied with their result. It was now... | |
 | Austen Henry Layard - 1850 - 470 pàgines
...steep, and thus avoided the necessity of removing much earth. We came almost immediately to a wallf, bearing inscriptions in the same character as those...threatened to fall to pieces as soon as uncovered. Isight interrupted our labours. I returned to the village well satisfied with their result. It was... | |
 | Austen Henry Layard - 1850 - 380 pàgines
...side of the mound, which was here very steep, and thus avoided the necessity of removing much earth. We came almost immediately to a wall,* bearing inscriptions...but the slabs had evidently been exposed to intense hejit, were cracked in every part, and, reduced to lime, threatened to fall to pieces as soon as uncovered.... | |
 | Austen Henry Layard - 1850 - 280 pàgines
...side of the mound, which was here very steep, and thus avoided the necessity of removing much earth. We came almost immediately to a wall, bearing inscriptions...but the slabs had evidently been exposed to intense hoat, were cracked in every part, and, reduced to lime, threatened to fall to pieces as soon as uncovered.... | |
 | William Sandys Wright Vaux - 1850 - 488 pàgines
...removing the mound. They almost immediately came upon a wall bearing inscriptions in the same characters as those already described. But the slabs had evidently...exposed to intense heat, were cracked in every part, and having been reduced to lime, threatened to fall to pieces as soon as they were uncovered. Such was... | |
 | sir Austen Henry Layard - 1851 - 442 pàgines
...observed many fragments of calcined alabaster. A trench, opened in the side of the mound, brought me almost immediately to a wall, bearing inscriptions in the same character as those already described. The slabs, which had been almost reduced to lime by exposure to intense heat, threatened to fall to... | |
 | Austen Henry Layard - 1852 - 410 pàgines
...observed many fragments of calcined alabaster. A trench, opened in the side of the mound, brought me almost immediately to a wall, bearing inscriptions in the same character as those already described. The slabs, which had been almost reduced to lime by exposure to intense heat, threatened to fall to... | |
 | George Smith - 1853 - 464 pàgines
...conflagration is proved by Mr. Layard's first discoveries amongst the ruins of this ancient city. He says, " We came almost immediately to a wall, bearing inscriptions...threatened to fall to pieces as soon as uncovered." (" Nineveh and its Remains," vol. ip 27.) We see, therefore, that the manner of the ruin of Nineveh... | |
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I dug at once into the side of the mound, which was here very steep, and thus avoided the necessity of removing much earth. We came almost immediately to a wall •)•, bearing inscriptions in the same character as those already described ; but the slabs... 
