 | 1843 - عدد الصفحات: 432
...'Askulan. He has the following observation respecting it. " The situation is described as strong ; the thick walls, flanked with towers, were built on the...the sea. The ground within sinks in the manner of an amphitheatre. The distance from Gaza is about five hours. My companion, Mr. Smith, passed by way of... | |
 | John Kitto - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 932
...but the walls, with numerous fragments of granite pillars. The situation is described as strong; the thick walls, flanked with towers, were built on the...the sea. The ground within sinks in the manner of an amphitheatre (Richardson, ii. 202-204; Kli Smith, in Missionary Herald for 1827, p. 311). The place... | |
 | Mary Fawler Maude - 1847 - عدد الصفحات: 466
...Askelon. He has the following observation respecting it. " The situation is described as strong ; the thick walls, flanked with towers, were built on the...rock that encircles the town, and terminates at each endiin the sea. The ground within sinks in the manner of an amphitheatre. The distance from Gaza is... | |
 | John Kitto - 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 842
...but the walls, with numerous fragments of granite pillars. The situation idescribed as strong; the thick walls, flanked with towers, were built on the top of a ridge ni rock that encircles the town, and tcrmiuates at each end in the sea. The place still bears tinname... | |
 | John Kitto - 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 922
...but the walls, with numerous fragments of granite pillars. The situation is described as strong; the thick walls, flanked with towers, were built on the...the sea. The ground within sinks in the manner of an amphitheatre (Richardson, ii. 202-204 ; Eli Smith, in Missionary Herald for 1827, p. 341). The place... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 420
...most mournful scenes of utter desolation he had ever beheld. Thick, massive walls flanked with towers, built on the top of a ridge of rock that encircles the towu, and terminates at each end in the sea, attest the strength and former grandeur of the place.... | |
 | William Smith - 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 2066
...ii. pî. 2, p. 383.) Modem travellers represent the situatinii as -strong ; the thick walls, tlanked with towers, were built on the top of a ridge of rock,...the sea. The ground within sinks in the manner of an amphitheatre. 'Askulan presents now a most mournful scene of utter desolation. (Robinson, Palestine,... | |
 | John Kitto - 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 830
...but the walls, with numerous fragments of granite pillars. The situation is described as strong; the thick walls, flanked with towers, were built on the...the town, and terminates at each end in the sea. The place still bears the name of Askulan. ASMODE'US (Tob. iii. 8), a demon or evil spirit, mentioned in... | |
 | William Smith - 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 1130
...der BM. Alterthem. vol. ii. pt. 2, p. 383.) Modem travellers represent the situation as strong ; the thick walls, flanked with towers, were built on the...ridge of rock, that encircles the town, and terminates nt each end in the sea. The ground within sinks in the manner of an amphitheatre. 'Asktdan presents... | |
 | John Kitto - 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 928
...walls, flanked with towers, were built •o the top of a ridge of rock that encircles the town, ana terminates at each end in the sea. The ground within sinks in the manner of an amphitheatre (Richardson, ii. 202-204; Eli Smith, in Mammary Herald for 1827, p. 341). The place still... | |
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Fifty years after (AD 1660), Von Troilo found it still partially inhabited. But its desolation has long been complete, and little now remains of it but the walls, with numerous fragments of granite pillars. The situation is described as strong ; the thick... 
