 | Literary Society of Bombay - Asia - 1819 - 412 pages
...under a thick and steep rock overhung by brushwood and wild shrubs. The long ranges of coJumns that appear closing in perspective on every side, the flat...falling only by the massy pillars, whose capitals are pressed down and flattened as if by the superincumbent weight, the darkness that obscures the interior... | |
 | India - 1819 - 406 pages
...under a thick and steep rock overhung by brushwood and wild shrubs. The long ranges of columns that appear closing in perspective on every side, the flat...falling only by the massy pillars, whose capitals are pressed down and flattened as if by the superincumbent weight, the darkness that obscures the interior... | |
 | Charles Webb Le Bas - Missions - 1831 - 528 pages
...his abode at Bombay, Bishop Middleton 13 CHAP, did not omit to visit the Island of Elephanta, for ^~ the purpose of examining its celebrated cave temple....CHAP. weight, — the obscurity of the interior of the tern- v^v^ pie, which is dimly lighted only by the entrance, — 1816' and the gloomy appearance of... | |
 | British Museum. Department of Egyptian Antiquities - Egypt - 1832 - 440 pages
...under a thick and steep rock overhung by brushwood and wild shrubs. The long ranges of columns that appear closing in perspective on every side, the flat...falling only by the massy pillars, whose capitals are pressed down and flattened as if by the superincumbent weight, the darkness that obscures the interior... | |
 | George Long - Antiquities - 1832 - 442 pages
...under a thick and steep rock overhung by brushwood and wild shrubs. The long ranges of columns that appear closing in perspective on every side, the flat...falling only by the massy pillars, whose capitals are pressed down and flattened as if by the superincumbent weight, the darkness that obscures the interior... | |
 | George Long - Antiquities - 1832 - 446 pages
...under a thick and steep rock overhung by brushwood and wild shrubs. The long ranges of columns that appear closing in perspective on every side, the flat...falling only by the massy pillars, whose capitals are pressed down and flattened as if by the superincumbent weight, the darkness that obscures the interior... | |
 | Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...under a thick and steep rock overhung by brushwood and wild shrubs. The long ranges of columns that appear closing in perspective on every side ; the...falling only by the massy pillars, whose capitals are pressed down and flattened as if by the superincumbent weight ; the darkness that obscures the interior... | |
 | Michael Russell - Africa, East - 1833 - 456 pages
...under a thick and steep rock overhung by brushwood and wild shrubs. The long ranges of columns that appear closing in perspective on every side ; the...falling only by the massy pillars, whose capitals are pressed down and flattened, as if by the superincumbent weight ; the darkness that obscures the interior... | |
 | Robert Elliot - 1833 - 356 pages
...under a thick and steep rock, overhung by brushwood, and wild shrubs. The long ranges of columns, that appear closing in perspective on every side; the flat...falling only by the massy pillars, whose capitals are pressed down and flattened, as if by the superincumbent weight ; the darkness that obscures the interior... | |
 | Michael Russell - Ethiopia - 1833 - 364 pages
...under a thick and steep rock overhung by brushwood and wild shrubs. The long ranges of columns that appear closing in perspective on every side ; the...falling only by the massy pillars, whose capitals are pressed down and flattened, as if by the superincumbent weight ; the darkness that obscures the interior... | |
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... pillars and two pilasters forming three openings, under a thick and steep rock overhung by brushwood and wild shrubs. The long ranges of columns that appear closing in perspective on every side, the flat roof of solid rock that seems to be prevented... 
