Two conspicuous monoliths stood up behind the huge lip of the crater to the south-west at the bottom of the valley, and also other remnants of the great convulsion of nature which had once taken place there.
At the northern end of the range stood a castle--the work of nature--with three square towers, and between them numerous monoliths or pillars standing on walls of columnar formation.
Strange monoliths were numerous, among the many fantastically shaped rocks, and also boulders lying about at all angles.
These monoliths were never very imposing in size, the tallest is hardly more than ten feet high.
In the woods around we found three other buildings much ruined, the pillars formed of rounded monoliths each some 6 feet high.
The monoliths averaged 12 feet in height, and are such masses of ingenious ornamentation as would arrest attention even if found as relics of a race the civilisation of which was perfectly understood.
Barely a dozen remain of more than six hundred monoliths that stood in the circle as late as the reign of Elizabeth; and the destruction ceased only fifty years ago.
Eighty monolithsof Simplon granite, brought down Lake Maggiore to the river Po and then by sea up the Tiber, sustain the roof of the nave and aisles.
The nave is divided into ten bays; the columns that support the round arches are magnificent monoliths of granite.
Enistor had likewise taken part in these sacrilegious doings and shivered at the memory of certain things, when he sighted the sinister grey monoliths which crowned the hill.
Enistor walked leisurely over the moor to where the evil mount with its crown of monoliths was indistinctly outlined against the grey sky.
The pink-and-white flowered comforter on the bed stirred, and two plump arms, with frills of lace falling backward, raised up like sturdy monoliths in the stretch that accompanies a yawn.
They were silhouetted on their little hilltop against the slate-colored sky, and all about them were the marblemonoliths and the Rocks of Ages of the dead.
There was no fence round this rustic dwelling, as the monoliths stood as guardians, and the space between the cottage walls and the gigantic stones was planted thickly with fragrant English flowers.
This ultimately led her to a spacious glade, in the centre of which stood a dozen or more rough monoliths of mossy gray and weather-worn stones, disposed in a circle.
On the 21st of June the sun rises exactly in a line with the centre of the horseshoe and the long earthen avenue leading towards the stones, and thus throws a ray between two of the outer monoliths and touches the altar stone.
The outer ring of monoliths encloses an inner one of blue stones about half their height.
Monoliths in front of door of temple at Yeha, 131.
The bank of skulls south of the monoliths of Gezer (p.
In the area behind (east of) these monoliths are entrances leading to two large underground caverns which appear to have been used originally for habitation; their maximum diameters are about 40 ft.
In a cavern south of themonoliths of Gezer a number of {48} pig-bones lay underneath a shaft which led to the cup-marked surface above (p.
Although the monolithsof Gezer do not appear to have lost their sacred character until perhaps the sixth century B.
Ridiculously small and almost negligible by the side of the great monoliths they dig and dig.
There are many barrows on the neighbouring downs, besides traces of a double oval of monoliths on Hackpen hill, and the huge mound of Silbury Hill.
Few traces remain, as the monoliths have been largely broken up for building purposes.
The highly finished monoliths are all representations of a many-storeyed castle, with an altar at the base of each.
In a kind of courtyard in the midst of these mounds are standing many huge stones, resembling in their situation and size the monoliths of Copan, but they bear no marks of sculpture, being rough and unhewn as if just taken from the quarry.
But some say that the monoliths in this Itchen valley have more connection with drifts than with Druids,” observed Mr. Hertford.
The foundations of a church with two monoliths in them have been discovered near St. George’s Street.
These remains are especially interesting in connection with the many “Druidical” monoliths found about this part of the country.
The Egyptian architect was therefore quite ready to use monoliths of exceptional size for the covering of voids when they were necessary, but he did not wantonly create that necessity, as those of other nations have often done.
The tall and slender shapes of these monoliths and their pointed summits have led to their being compared, in popular language, with needles and spindles.
The great monolithswere placed upon rafts at the foot of the mountains in which they were quarried, and floated during the inundation by river and canal to a point as near as possible to their destined sites.
The jambs are monoliths as well as the lintel, and the latter, notwithstanding the great additional weight which it has to carry, does not exceed the former in section.
Few of these beautiful monoliths have fallen, but some are much time-worn, and have a growth of vivid red or green lichen upon them.
The roof of the portico is two fathoms in width; it also is built of monoliths painted with stars upon a blue ground.
In his temple at Memphis he placed statues of himself and his wife, monoliths of thirty cubits high, and also statues of his four sons, twenty cubits in height.
The superb portico is supported by a maze of granite monoliths seven feet in diameter.
These great monoliths come down to us from the period when the Egyptians worshiped the sun, and they were intended to represent his rays.
The figures of our gods, which you see hewn in marble, painted on temples, standing colossal monoliths in the entrance of the city, are but vicarious forms, not intended to be looked upon as real divine personages.
There are about fifteen monoliths making up the circle, and they are all lying flat on the ground, so that in the summer they are very much overgrown with rank grass and low bushes.
Footnote 201: Two miles higher up the river than the Cat-stane, four large monoliths still stand near Newbridge.
From some of the enchanted lands, perhaps near the American shore, Merlin went to England, piled the monoliths of Stonehenge on Salisbury moor, and after gaining respect and fear as a magician and prophet, sailed back across the waste.
Written history never was more romantic nor more graphically told than that which Nature has inscribed upon the walls of these vast canyons, domes and monoliths in a language which man has learned to read.
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