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" ... walls are covered with bas-reliefs crowded with figures, and carved in hard stone ; and which must therefore occupy an extent of nearly three miles in length ! The amount of human labour and skill expended on the Great Pyramids of Egypt sinks into... "
Through Central Borneo: An Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of the ... - Page 12
by Carl Lumholtz - 1920 - 467 pages
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The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of ..., Volume 1

Alfred Russel Wallace - Ethnology - 1869 - 360 pages
...are covered -with basreliefs crowded with figures, and carved in hard stone; and which must therefore occupy an extent of nearly three miles in length !...amount of human labour and skill expended on the Great Pyramid of Egypt sinks into insignificance when compared with that required to complete this sculptured...
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The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan, and the Bird of ..., Volume 2

Alfred Russel Wallace - Ethnology - 1869 - 688 pages
...covered with bas-reliefs crowded with figures, and carved in hard stone ; and which must therefore occupy an extent of nearly three miles in length ! The amount of human labor and skill expended on the Great Pyramid of Egypt sinks into insignificance when compared with...
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Report Upon the Condition and Progress of the U.S. National Museum During ...

United States National Museum - 1891 - 1232 pages
...therefore occupy an extent of nearly 3 miles in length. The amount of human labor and skill expended upon the great pyramids of Egypt, sink into insignificance...compared with that required to complete this sculptured hill temple in the interior of Java. About 40 miles southwest of Samarang, on a mountain called Junoug...
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Te Pito Te Henua, Or Easter Island

William Judah Thomson - Archaeology - 1891 - 214 pages
...therefore occupy an extent of nearly 3 miles in length. The amount of human labor and skill expended upon the great pyramids of Egypt, sink into insignificance...compared with that required to complete this sculptured hill temple in the interior of Java. About 40 miles southwest of Samarang, on a mountain called Junong...
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Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, Volume 29

New Zealand Institute - Science - 1897 - 788 pages
...are covered with bas-reliefs crowded with figures and carved in hard stone, and which must therefore occupy an extent of nearly three miles in length....amount of human labour and skill expended on the Great Pyramid of Egypt sinks into insignificance -when compared with that required to complete this sculptured...
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The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise ...

Alfred Russel Wallace - Ethnology - 1902 - 566 pages
...covered with bas-reliefs crowded with figures, and carved in hard stone ; and which must therefore occupy an extent of nearly three miles in length !...and skill expended on the Great Pyramids of Egypt sinks into insignificance when compared with that required to complete this sculptured hill-temple...
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Wonders of the World as Seen and Described by Great Writers

Esther Singleton - Architecture - 1912 - 462 pages
...are covered with bas-reliefs crowded with figures and carved in hard stone ; and which must therefore occupy an extent of nearly three miles in length !...amount of human labour and skill expended on the Great Pyramid of Egypt sinks into insignificance when compared with that required to complete this sculptured...
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Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, Volume 29

Science - 1897 - 798 pages
...are covered with bas-reliefs crowded with figures and carved in hard stone, and which must therefore occupy an extent of nearly three miles in length....amount of human labour and skill expended on the Great Pyramid of Egypt sinks into insignificance when compared with that required to complete this sculptured...
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A Random Record of Travel During Fifty Years

William Dudley Foulke - Voyages and travel - 1925 - 302 pages
...the surviving wonders of the world." And Sir Stamford Raffles, former Governor of Java declared, " The amount of human labour and skill expended on the Great Pyramids of Egypt sinks into insignificance when compared with that required to complete this sculptured hill temple...
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