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... feet long and 30 feet wide , the side aisles , if we may so term them , being of exactly the same length , but one only 14 feet wide , and the other 13 feet 9 inches wide at one end and 16 feet at the other . The middle compartment is ...
... feet long and 30 feet wide , the side aisles , if we may so term them , being of exactly the same length , but one only 14 feet wide , and the other 13 feet 9 inches wide at one end and 16 feet at the other . The middle compartment is ...
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... feet long and 25 feet wide , was laid open . The Romans , it may be stated , in this country at least , did not warm their apartments by open fire- places or stoves , but by hot air chambers built under- neath the ground - floors ...
... feet long and 25 feet wide , was laid open . The Romans , it may be stated , in this country at least , did not warm their apartments by open fire- places or stoves , but by hot air chambers built under- neath the ground - floors ...
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... feet . It is customary when a new building is about to be erected , to deposit on the foundation - stone coins for the current year , of the reigning sovereign , in order to mark the period of its erection . Fate would ap- pear to have ...
... feet . It is customary when a new building is about to be erected , to deposit on the foundation - stone coins for the current year , of the reigning sovereign , in order to mark the period of its erection . Fate would ap- pear to have ...
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... feet square , and on its north and south sides runs chambers from ten to twelve feet square . a row of Dr. Henry Johnson , the Hon . Secretary of the Excavation Committee , with classic instinct , imme- diately fancied that it was the ...
... feet square , and on its north and south sides runs chambers from ten to twelve feet square . a row of Dr. Henry Johnson , the Hon . Secretary of the Excavation Committee , with classic instinct , imme- diately fancied that it was the ...
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... feet high from the pavement , but there is no sign of any door - ways . It has been suggested , that wooden steps , long since perished , may have given entrance to them ; but then we should expect to find the marks in the walls where ...
... feet high from the pavement , but there is no sign of any door - ways . It has been suggested , that wooden steps , long since perished , may have given entrance to them ; but then we should expect to find the marks in the walls where ...
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