 | Charles Rollin - History, Ancient - 1815 - 544 pages
...and over the cables we have been speaking of, they laid the trunks of trees, cut purposely for that use, and flat boats again over them, fastened and...be frightened with seeing the sea in their passage. This was the form of those famous bridges built by Xerxes. When the whole work was completed, a day... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 688 pages
...was placed nearer the /Egean sea. The bridges were boarded, and covered over with earth, having rails on each side, that the horses and cattle might not be frightened at the sight of the sea. The army spent seven days and nights in passing over, though they marched... | |
 | Charles Rollin - History, Ancient - 1820 - 386 pages
...cables we have been speaking of, they laid the trunks of trees, cut purposely for that use, and planks again over them fastened and joined together, to serve...be frightened with seeing the sea in their passage. This was the mode of constructing those famous bridges built by Xerxes. • When the whole work was... | |
 | Charles Rollin - History, Ancient - 1830 - 480 pages
...and over the cables we have been speaking of, they laid the trunks of trees, cut purposely for that use, and flat boats again over them, fastened and...the construction of those famous bridges built by Xerxes.J When the whole work was completed, a day was appointed for their passing over : and as soon... | |
 | Charles Rollin - History, Ancient - 1841 - 384 pages
...trunks of trees, cut purposely for that use, and planks again over them, fastened and joined to gether, to serve as a kind of floor or solid bottom ; all...with earth, and added rails or battlements on each Bide, that the horses and cattle might not be frightened at seeing the sea in their passage. This was... | |
 | Charles Rollin, Robert Lynam - History, Ancient - 1843 - 384 pages
...trunks of trees, cut purposely for that use, and planks again over them, fastened and joined to gether, to serve as a kind of floor or solid bottom ; all...that the horses and cattle might not be frightened at seeing the sea in their passage. This was the mode of constructing those famous bridges built by... | |
 | Robert Benjamin Lewis - Black race - 1844 - 414 pages
...and over the cables we have been speaking of, they laid the trunks of trees, cut purposely for that use, and flat boats again over them, fastened and...be frightened with seeing the sea in their passage. This was the form of those famous bridges built by Xerxes. When the whole work was completed, a day... | |
 | Robert Benjamin Lewis - Black race - 1844 - 414 pages
...and over the cables we have been speaking of, they laid the trunks of trees, cut purposely for that use, and flat boats again over them, fastened and...which they covered over with earth, and added rails or battletqents on each side, that the horses and cattle might not be frightened with seeing the sea in... | |
 | Book - 1850 - 210 pages
...beasts of burden passed over the other. The bridges were boarded, and covered with earth, having rails on each side that the horses and cattle might not be frightened at the sight of the sea. This army was seven days and nights in passing over, though it marched day... | |
 | Charles Rollin - 1853 - 476 pages
...and over the cables we have been speaking of, they laid the trunks of trees, cut purposely for that use, and flat boats again over them, fastened and...rails or battlements on each side, that the horses and catuV might not be frightened with seeing the sea in their passage. Such was the construction of those... | |
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... again over them fastened and joined together, to serve as a kind of floor or solid bottom : all which they covered over with earth, and added rails or battlements on each side, that the horses and cattle might not be frightened with seeing the sea... 
