 | Josiah Conder - 1827 - 384 pages
...magnificent street, 2,000 feet broad, the whole length of the city, to the Canopic gate ; commanding a view, at each end, of the shipping, either in the Mediterranean or in the Mareotic lake. Another street of equal length intersected this at right angles. The suburb of Nicopolis extended along... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks, Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - Bibliography - 1837 - 522 pages
...whole length of the city, from the Gate of the Sea to the Cunopie Gate, commanding a view, at tach end, of the shipping, either in the Mediterranean...; a spacious circus without the Canopie Gate, for chariot. races, and on the east a splendid gymnasium, more than six hundred feet in length, with theatres,... | |
 | 1837 - 524 pages
...feet broad ran the whole length of the city, from the Gate of the Sea to the Canopie Gate, commanding a view, at each end, of the shipping, either in the...it at right angles ; a spacious circus without the G'anopie Gate, for chariot-races, and on the east a splendid gymnasium, more than six hundred feet... | |
 | William Holt Yates - Egypt - 1843 - 634 pages
...rubbish, through which a road has been cut about a quar110 SITE OF THE OLD TOWN — FELLAHEEN WOMEN view at each end, of the shipping, either in the Mediterranean or in the Mareotic Lake ; and that this street was crossed by another of equal length, at right angles. We learn also that the city... | |
 | William Holt Yates - Egypt - 1843 - 620 pages
...to be now marked by a mass of sand and rubbish, through which a road has been cut about a qnarview at each end, of the shipping, either in the Mediterranean or in the Mareotic Lake ; and that this street was crossed by another of equal length, at right angles. We learn also that the city... | |
 | George baron Anson - 1853 - 660 pages
...feet broad ran the whole length of the city, from the Gate of the Sea to the Canopic Gate, commanding a view, at each end, of the shipping, either in the...Mareotic Lake, and another of equal length intersected itatrightangles ; •л spacious circus without the Canopic Cíate, for chariot-races, and on the east... | |
 | Theodore Alois Buckley - Seven Wonders of the World - 1854 - 332 pages
...feet broad, ran the whole length of the city, from the Gate of the Sea to the Canopie Gate, commanding a view at each end of the shipping, either in the...gymnasium, more than six hundred feet in length, with theaters, baths, and all that could make it a desirable residence for a luxurious people. In the campaigns... | |
 | Seven wonders - Architecture, Ancient - 1854 - 384 pages
...feet broad ran the whole length of the city, from the Gate of the Sea to the Canopic Gate, commanding a view, at each end, of the shipping, either in the...another of equal length intersected it at right angles ; without the Canopic Gate was a spacious circus for chariot races, and on the east a splendid gymnasium,... | |
 | Malta Protestant college - Islam - 1854 - 406 pages
...length * 1 Kings xviii. 46. ANCIENT ALEXANDRIA. 95 " of the city, to the Canopic gate ; commanding a view, " at each end, of the shipping, either in the Mediterranean " or in the Mareotic lake. Another street of equal " length intersected this at right angles. The suburb of " Nicopolis extended... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1859 - 478 pages
...broad, ran the whole length of the city, from the Gate of the S !a to the Canopie Gate, commanding a view at each end, of the shipping, either in the...without the Canopie Gate, for chariot-races. and on the cant a splendid gymnasium more than six hundred feet in length, with theatres, baths. and all that... | |
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Gate, for chariot-races, and on the east a splendid gymnasium more than six hundred feet in length, with theatres, baths, and all that could make it a desirable residence for a luxurious people. When it fell into the hands of the Saracens... 
