 At the base the ramp is 50 feet broad, growing narrower as you ascend. It curves to the right, and reaches the area on the top near its southwest corner. Twenty-five years since, before it was injured by cultivation, visitors could easily ride to the...  ... Miscellaneous Papers Relating to Anthropology - Page 102by Otis T. Mason - 1883 - 160 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1872 - 508 pages
...about four-fifths of the British earth monument on the field of Waterloo. At the base the ramp is fifty feet broad, growing narrower as you ascend. It curves...About 300 yards to the north rises the second terrace, or bottom of the valley, composed of red clay and gravel. Near the foot of it are the remains of a... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1872 - 848 pages
...about four-fifths of the British earth monument on the field of Waterloo. At the base the ramp is fifty feet broad, growing narrower as you ascend. It curves...About 300 yards to the north rises the second terrace, or bottom of the valley, composed of red clay and gravel. Near the foot of it are the remains of a... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1872 - 504 pages
...four-fifths of the British earth monument on the field of Waterloo. At the base the ramp is fifty fe6t broad, growing narrower as you ascend. It curves to...About 300 yards to the north rises the second terrace, or bottom of the valley, composed of red clay and gravel. Near the foot of it are the remains of a... | |
 | - 1883 - 870 pages
...since, before it was injured hy cultivation, visitors could easily ride to the summit on horseback aloug the ramp. From this spot the view of the rich valley of the Etowau, towards the west, and of the picturesque hills which border it on either side, is one of surpassing... | |
 | Anthropology - 1891 - 432 pages
...sides are nowhere washed or gullied by rains. Prior to the clearing of the land, large trees flourished on the top and on the slopes. I estimate its mass...gravel. Near the foot of it are the remains of a ditch, enclosing this group of mounds in an arc of a circle, at a distance of about 200 yards. The western... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1883 - 868 pages
...top and on the slopes. I estimate its mass to contain 117,000 cubic yards, which is about foorflfths of the Prussian earth monument on the field of Waterloo....picturesque hills which border it on either side, is »ne of surpassing beauty. About 300 yards to the north rises the second terrace of the valley, composed... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1872 - 508 pages
...about four-fifths of the British earth monument on the field of Waterloo. At the base the ramp is fifty feet broad, growing narrower as you ascend. It curves...About 300 yards to the north rises the second terrace, or bottom of the valley, composed of red clay and gravel. Near the foot of it are the remains of a... | |
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