Reber, Franz, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920, tr · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 44
his extension was, in fact, commenced byproviding a broad and deep staircase. But it was soon found thatthe lower stratum of earth differed from that previously worked in,and lacked the necessary solidity for tunnellings of this kind; thescheme was therefore relinquished. It is particularly… … Fig. 3.—Third Crypt of the Northern Passage in the Catacomb of Calixtus. First Period. may well have existed under the Caecilians—it may even have beenthe tomb of St. Cecilia herself, as the remains of her body, whendiscovered in the ninth century, were not lying in their originalposition, but in a…
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