Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 514
he camelsback, the size of thestones that are quarriedto-day. There are threeother huge blocks inthe foundation of theTemple of the Sun atBaalbec, but the greatcorner-stone far exceedsthem all. It is sixty-seven feet long, eighteenfeet wide, and thirteenfeet high. Its weight isestimated at eleven… … likely one suggests that ai slightly inclined plane wasbuilt from the greatstone; thousands ofmen, probably prisonersof war, were harnessedHke beasts of burden,and, under the lashesof their taskmasters,were made to dragthis immense massslowly up the inclineto its place in the wall.As time, hfe, and…
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