 | Thomas Ashe - Allegheny River (Pa. and N.Y.) - 1803 - 402 pages
...pentagon is accurately described ; having its sides four feet high, and its angles uniformly three feet from the circumference of the circle, thus leaving...passage between it and the circle; but the circle itself hasonly one grand gateway, which directly faces the town. Exactly in the centre stands a mound, about... | |
 | Josiah Priest - America - 1833 - 534 pages
...is a figure, having five angles or sides. Each side of the pentagon has a postern, or small gateway, opening into the passage between it and the circle...; but the circle itself has only one grand gateway outward. Exactly in the centre stands a mound about thirty feet high, supposed to have been a place... | |
 | Josiah Priest - 1835 - 416 pages
...is a figure, having five angles or sides. Each side of the pentagon has a postern or small gateway, opening into the passage between it and the circle; but the circle itself has only one grand gateway out•ward. Exactly in the centre stands a mound about thirty feet high, supposed to have been a place... | |
 | Newton Bosworth - Architecture - 1839 - 354 pages
...is a figure, having five angles or sides. Knelt side of the pentagon has a postern or small gateway, opening into the passage between it and the circle...; but the circle itself has only one grand gateway outward. Exactly in the centre stands a mound about thirty feet high, supposed to have been a place... | |
 | Otis T. Mason - Mounds - 1883 - 176 pages
...circle a pentagon is accurately described, having its sides 4 feet high and its angles uniformly 3 feet from the circumference of the circle, thus leaving...between it and the circle, but the circle itself has ouly one grand gateway, which directly faces the town. Exactly in the center stands a mound, about... | |
 | - 1883 - 870 pages
...circle a pentagon is accurately described, having its sides 4 feet high and its angles uniformly 3 feet from the circumference of the circle, thus leaving...opening into the passage between it and the circle, bat the circle itself has only one grand gateway, which directly faces tbe town. Exactly in the center... | |
 | United States - 1887 - 734 pages
...communication all around. . . . Each side of the pentagon has a postern or small gateway, opening into a passage between it and the circle, but the circle itself has only one grand gateway outward. Exactly in the centre stands a mound thirty-three feet high, supposed to have been a place... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1883 - 868 pages
...circle a pentagon is accurately described, having its sides 4 feet high and its angles uniformly 3 feet from the circumference of the circle, thus leaving...gateway, which directly faces the town. Exactly in the center stands a mound, about 30 feet high, hitherto considered as a repository for the dead, and which... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1883 - 870 pages
...sides 4 feet high and its angles uniformly 3 feet from the circumference of the circle, thus leav ing an unbroken communication all round. Each side of...gateway, which directly faces the town. Exactly in the center stands a mound, about 30 feet high, hitherto considered as a repository for the dead, and which... | |
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Within the circle a pentagon is accurately described, having its sides 4 feet high and its angles uniformly 3 feet from the circumference of the circle, thus leaving an unbroken communication all round. Each side of the pentagon has a postern opening... 