In the centre of the garden was an immense reservoir of hewn stone, four hundred paces square, and fed by navigable canals.
The whole structure is of hewn stonelaid in mortar, and no traces of wood remain.
The chief feature at Tikal is the occurrence of many palaces or temples of hewn stone in mortar, on the summit of hills usually of slight elevation.
The surface of this pyramid is faced with blocks of hewn stone laid in mortar.
The earlier visitors doubtless counted each isolated fragment of hewn stone, or other trace of the antiguos' work, as representing an aboriginal edifice.
This gate resembles a triumphal arch; it is built of hewn stone, each side being adorned with four pilasters, their entablature, and an arched pediment of the Corinthian order.
The great court round about had three courses of hewn stone, and a course of cedar beams; like as the inner court of the house of Yahweh, and the porch of the house.
There were four tables for the burnt offering, of hewn stone, a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half broad, and one cubit high; whereupon they laid the instruments with which they killed the burnt offering and the sacrifice.
He built the inner court with three courses of hewn stone, and a course of cedar beams.
The walls themselves are of hewn stone, with plain mouldings, of which the most delicate runs round the apse and side chapels, above the windows, in a continuous band.
The water issues from a recess in the side of the mountain which has been levelled with a masonry of hewn stone.
The canals constructed by the States are, nevertheless, pretty well finished; their dimensions are less than those of our canals, but greater than those of England; the locks are almost always of hewn stone.
This is low, yet the locks are all of hewn stone; the ground, however, was very favorable.
The ruins of a large stone khan take up all the central portion of the place; massive gateways of hewn stone, ornamented by the sculptor's chisel, are still standing, eloquent monuments of a more prosperous era.
The royal buildings are very handsome, with a good view, and very roomy, with many windows opening seaward and to the parade; they are all of hewn stone, with two courts and high and low corridors with thick pillars.
And they kindled both the preparations with fire; and they came down, and entered into the chamber of hewn stone.
One place was by the door of the Mountain of the House; and one was by the door of the court; and one was in the chamber of hewn stone.
In the south were the chamber of wood, the chamber of the captivity, and the chamber of hewn stone.
The edifices were built of hewn stonelaid in a mortar of lime and sand, the masonry being admirable, and the ornamentation, in most cases, very abundant.
In Central America important edifices were built of hewn stone, and can still be examined in their ruins.
Many of the great buildings erected on such pyramidal foundations, at Palenque, Uxmal, and elsewhere in that region, have not disappeared, because they were built of hewn stone laid in mortar.
The foundations were sustained by an immense bulwark of hewn stone.
Athens, however, still recovered some portion of its power; for when Sylla arrived before the Piraeus, he found the walls to be sixty feet high, and entirely of hewn stone.
Nothing remains of its ancient grandeur besides some stupendous causeways and massy gateways of hewn stone.
The buildings are all of hewn stone, the court-yards paved with marble, and the walls rich with gilding and carved wood.
The houses are all of hewn stone, frequently three and even four stories in height, and built in a most massive and durable style, on account of the frequency of earthquakes.
The houses are all built of hewn stone, and grouped in clusters under the shade of large walnut-trees.
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