 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 712 pages
...thirty-five feet from the foundation, is a solid of stones, engrafted into each other, and united by every means of additional strength. The building has four...flat above, but concave beneath, and are kept from pressing against the sides of the building by a chain let into the •walls. It is nearly eighty feet... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 688 pages
...thirty-five feet from the foundation, is a solid of stones, engrafted into each other, and united by every means of additional strength. The building has four...flat above, but concave beneath, and are kept from pressing against the sides of the building by a chain let into the walls. It is nearly eighty feet... | |
 | George Miller - Madeira Islands - 1815 - 156 pages
...feet, engrafted into each other, and united by every means that can render them secure. The structure has four rooms, one over the other, and at the top a gallery and lanthorn. The stone floors are flat above, but concave below, and are kept from pressing against the... | |
 | George Alexander Cooke - England - 1817 - 354 pages
...by Mr Smeaton, in 1774. Jt consists of four rooms one over another, and at the top a gallery and a lantern. The stone floors are flat above, but concave beneath, and are kept from pressing against the sides of the building by a chain let into the walls. Portland stone and granite... | |
 | John Adolphus - Commonwealth of Nations - 1818 - 560 pages
...ere&ion was alfo burnt in 1770, and rebuilt in 1774. The building, as now conftructed, confifts of four rooms, one over the other, and at the top, a gallery and lantern. The ftone floors are flat above but concave beneath, and are kept from prefllng againft the fides of the... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 822 pages
...engrafted into each other, and united by every means of additional strength. The building hns four rooifis, one over the other, and at the top a gallery and lantern. The stone floors are flat above, Imt concave beneath, and arc kept from pressing against the sides of the building by a chain let into... | |
 | Mrs. Jamieson (Frances Thurtle) - Costume - 1820 - 538 pages
...feet, from the foundation is a solid mass of stones, engrafted into each other, and united by every means of additional strength. The building has four...flat above, but concave beneath, and are kept from pressing against the sides of the building by a chain let into the walls. It is nearly eighty feet... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Wonder - 1821 - 788 pages
...engrafted into each other, and united by every means of additional strength that could be devised. The building has four rooms, one over the other, and...flat above, but concave beneath, and are kept from pressing against the sides of the building by a chain let into the walls. It is nearly eighty feet... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Curiosities and wonders - 1821 - 768 pages
...means of additional strength that could be devised. The building has four rooms, one over the oilier, and at the top a gallery and lantern. The stone floors...flat above, but concave beneath, and are kept from pressing against the sides of the building by a chain let into the walls. It is nearly eighty feet... | |
 | Geography - 1821 - 768 pages
...of 33 feet from the foundation, is a solid of stonrs, engrafted into each other; above this arc lour rooms, one over the other, and at the top a gallery and lantern. It ii nearly 80 feet high; and its distance from the Ram Head, the nearest point of land, is 12 miles.... | |
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The building has four rooms, one over the other, and at the top a gallery and lantern. The stone floors are flat above, but concave beneath, and are kept from pressing against the sides of the building by a chain let into the •walls. 
