From the extremity of one of these promontories it is two miles or more across the gulf to the point of the one opposite, and the heads of the amphitheaters are thirteen miles apart.
Valley glaciers commonly head as we have seen, in broad amphitheaters deeply filled with snow and ice.
The Greeks reared matchless temples and theaters never equaled for their purity and simplicity; the Romans, baths and amphitheaters whose floridness suggested display and luxury.
The conquerors built amphitheaters throughout the island, but their theaters were in almost every instance merely enlargements or adaptations of older structures.
The cause of the concentrated action of the north wind is found in the peculiar form of the north sides of the peaks, where the amphitheaters of the residual glaciers are.
They are mostly found in the upper branches of the cañons, and in the glacial amphitheaters around the peaks.
Of other games that were sometimes given in the amphitheaters something has been said in connection with the circus (section 343).
Amphitheaters open out from little erosion valleys or wadi, and isolated outliers of the mountains stand like sentinels before their massive fronts.
At this stage intensive frostwork, the characteristic high level weathering, begins, and cirques develop above the scars of those earlier amphitheaters formed in the advancing hemicycle.
The amphitheaters or lecture rooms, much on the same system as those at the Polytechnic, are two in number, one for each of the two divisions.
On the first floor, are the two amphitheaters or great lecture rooms, assigned respectively to the pupils of the two years or divisions, in which the ordinary lectures are given.
At one time he had a corps of five thousand men under pay to applaud him, in the immense circuses and amphitheaters where he performed.
They were accustomed in those days to have spectacles and shows in vast amphitheaters which were covered, when the sun was hot, with awnings.
Such performances are frequently given in these amphitheaterswithout human aid, by the mere undermining of the rain, or perhaps it is here that Sisyphus rehearses his unending task.
On its way it flows with comparative quiet through beautiful scenery, with glens that are vast amphitheaters which often overhang great springs and ponds of water deeply embosomed in the cliffs.
Vast amphitheaters are found in its walls and titanic pinnacles rise from its depths.
In many places the river runs under a cliff in great curves, formingamphitheaters half-dome shaped.
In these quiet curves vast amphitheatersare formed, now in vertical rocks, now in steps.
From the cliffs many salients are projected into the valleys, and within deep re-entering angles vast amphitheaters appear.
But its walls and cliffs, its peaks and crags, its amphitheaters and alcoves, tell a story of beauty and grandeur that I hear yet--and shall hear.
These end generally in perpendicular cliffs overhanging the rocky amphitheaters at the heads of the smaller streams which flow eastward into the Cowlitz.
The amphitheaters which the young geologist mistook for craters are now known to be glacier basins eroded by ice.
Several of the main ice streams head in the neves gathering about the summit craters, but a larger number originate in profound amphitheaterscarved in the mountain's flanks, at levels fully 4,000 feet below the summit.
The largest of these amphitheaters was the Colosseum, the ruins of which still exist.
Some were burned, others were tortured, others were torn to pieces by wild animals in the great amphitheaters to satisfy the fierce Roman crowd.
Permanent amphitheaters were established for dissection, and chairs of anatomy created, their incumbents being paid out of the public treasury.
Amphitheaters for dissection were open in every city in Europe.
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