Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, places, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1882)
Yaggy, Levi W · Chicago, Western Publishing House; New York, Standard Publishing House; [etc.,etc.] · leaf 436
ying streams.One with hot current flows, and from beneath,As from a furnace, clouds of steam arise;Mid Summers heat the other rises coldAs hail, or snow, or water crystallized ;Be-ide the fountains stood the washing-troughsOf well-wrought stone, where erst the wives of TroyAnd daughters fair their… … LACK OF INSCRIPTIONS. 42 from six and one-half to eleven and three-quarters inches thick,laid together for conducting water, which was brought from adistance of about seven miles from the upper Thymbrius. Thisriver is now called the Kemar, from the Greek word kamara(vault), because an aqueduct of…
Haines, Thomas L · Civilization · Classical antiquities
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