Nineveh and Babylon; a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, and 1851 (1867)
Layard, Austen Henry, Sir, 1817-1894 · London J. Murray · leaf 59
vals to admit light and air. The underground pas-sages were narrow, and were propped up when necessaryeither by leaving columns of soil, as in mines, or by wooden * No. LI. Plan I. t No. Liii. Plan I. .\7.\7:!/:// AXI) ILUiVLON. [Chat. beams. These long galleries, dimly lighted, and lined withthe… … Underground Excavations at Kouyunjik. southern corner of the mound, where the sculptures weremuch injured, and had opened tunnels in a part of the build-ing previously explored, commencing where I had left off in1847.* I descended into the underground passages by an in-clined way, thrpugh which the…
