Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, palaces, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1883)
Yaggy, Levi W, Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis), b. 1844 · Alexandria, Va., W.P. Grant & co. · leaf 912
arge or deep pits, so that the nameof sand-pit is rather deceitful to American people, who com-monly imagine it to be always a large and deep pit to whichthese roads lead only; this is not always the case, the roads them-selves being excavated in the layer of sand, and frequently them-selves the… … STONE COFFIN WITH OPEN SIDE. We are told in the Acta Sanctorum that one of the punish-ments inflicted on the Christians by the Emperor Maximinus inthe sixth persecution, A. D. 35, was digging sand and stone.The martyrs, Ciriacus and Sisinnus are especially mentioned asordered to be strictly…
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