Death of Bonaparte, and universal peace ; a new explanation of Nebuchadnezzar's great image, and Daniel's four beasts ... To which is added a chronological table of the sovereigns included in the number 666 / By L. Mayer.

  • Lewis Mayer
Date:
1809
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Credit: Death of Bonaparte, and universal peace ; a new explanation of Nebuchadnezzar's great image, and Daniel's four beasts ... To which is added a chronological table of the sovereigns included in the number 666 / By L. Mayer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    bylonians advanced their knowledge in astrono- my beyond all other nations. This tower, and the several rooms in it, were all that was called the temple of Relus until Ne- buchadnezzar enlarged it with vast buildings, which were erected in a square of two furlongs on each side; on the outside of these was wall inclosing the whole, in which were several gates made of solid brass. This temple stood until the time of Xerxes, who, in his return from Greece, after meeting with a singular defeat, plundered the temple of its immense riches, among which were several statues or images of solid gold, demolished the whole, and laid it in ruins. The hanging gardens, (says my author) con- tained a space of four hundred feet square, and were carried up into the air in the manner of several large terraces one above the other, until - the highet of them came up to the height of the walls of the city, viz. three hundred and fifty feet. The ascent was from terrace to terrace, by stairs ten feet wide, and the whole pile was sustained by vast arches built upon arches, one above another, and strengthened by a w’all of twenty-two feet on its three sides, and others of a proportionable thickness in the fronts of each terrace. On the top of the arches were first laid large flat stones sixteen feet long and four broad ; over them was a layer of reed mixt with a great quantity of bitumen ; over this were two rows of brick closely cemented to- gether; over these were laid thick sheets of lead, to prevent the moisture from drainingaway too fast from the earth, which was laid on the terraces in a sufficient quantity as to afford depth enough for the largest trees to take root in it; or in these gardens there was every thing that
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