 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1847 - 550 pages
...than a league, all along the route. Its breadth scarcely exceeded twenty feet. It was built of heavy flags of freestone, and in some parts, at least, covered...which time has made harder than the stone itself. la some places, where the ravines had been filled up with masonry, the mountain torrents, wearing on... | |
 | 1848 - 350 pages
...than a league, all along the route. Its breadth scarcely exceeded twenty feet. It was built of heavy flags of freestone, and in some parts, at least, covered...way through the base, and left the superincumbent mass—such is the cohesion of the materials—still spanning the valley like an arch. Over some of... | |
 | 1850 - 682 pages
...than a league, all along the route. Its breadth scarcely exceeded twenty feet. It was built of heavy flags of freestone, and in some parts, at least, covered...the stone itself. In some places where the ravines lind been filled up with masonry, the mountain torrents, wearing on it for ages, have gradually eaten... | |
 | M. Edgeworth Lazarus - Christianity and other religions - 1852 - 146 pages
...south, are estimated at 1500 to 2000 miles in length. Its breadth was 20 feet. It was built of heavy flags of freestone, and in some parts at least, covered with a bituminous cement harder than the stone itself. The lowland road was a raised causeway on a high embankment, defended... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1861 - 838 pages
...variously estimated from 1,500 to 2,000 m., and about 20 feet in breadth. " They were built of heavy flags of freestone, and in some parts at least covered...which time has made harder than the stone itself." (Prescott, " Conquest of Peru," vol. ip 63.) In Central America, among the ruins of Palenque, are also... | |
 | Richard Edwards - Readers - 1867 - 372 pages
...than a league, all along the route. Its breadth scarcely exceeded twenty feet It was built of heavy flags of freestone, and in some parts, at least, covered...materials — still spanning the valley like an arch. 5. Over some of the boldest streams it was necessary to construct suspension bridges, as they are termed,... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 386 pages
...than a league, all along the route. Its breadth scarcely exceeded twenty feet. It was built of heavy flags of freestone, and in some parts, at least, covered...way through the base, and left the superincumbent mass—such is the cohesion of the materials—still spanning the valley like an arch. 5. Over some... | |
 | Thomas Joseph Hutchinson - 1873 - 446 pages
...breadth scarcely exceeded twenty feet. It was built of heavy flags of freestone, and in some parts covered with a bituminous cement, which time has made harder than the stone itself." 5 Although I am the last person to throw any doubt on descriptions of things and places which I have... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1875 - 944 pages
...2,000 m., and about 20 ft. in breadth. They were built of heavy flags of freestone, and in some parts covered with a bituminous cement, which time has made harder than the stone itself. In Mexico, among the ruins of Palenque, are also found pavements of large square blocks of stone constructed... | |
 | James Johonnot - Geography - 1882 - 448 pages
...freestone, and in some parts, at least, covered with a bituminous cement, which time has made harder than stone itself. In some places, where the ravines had...materials — still spanning the valley like an arch. 5. Over some of the boldest streams it was necessary to construct suspension bridges, as they are termed,... | |
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It was built of heavy flags of freestone, and in some parts, at least, covered with a bituminous cement, which time has made harder than the stone itself. In some places, where the ravines had been filled up with masonry, the mountain torrents, wearing... 
