A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 434
llstand erect. Second, the Via Recta at Damas-cus, 1550 feet long, and running through thetoTs-n from gate to gate; excepting the twogateways, the la.st vestiges above ground of thiswere destroyed at the time of the massacre of1860, when the Christian quarter was destroyed.Third, that of Gerasa,… … 726 SYRIA Ionic oaiiituls, tlio reiiiiiiiuler being Corinthian.A vaultiil totrapylon existed here. Amman,Kunawat, Ho.sra in tlie Houran (with two tetra-))ylons), Uailara, PeUa, Aiianiea, and othertowns are referred to by travellers. The mostancient colonnaded street of which remains ex-ist is tliat…
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