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Identifier: gri_33125009339611 (find matches)
Title: A description of the East, and some other countries
Year: 1743 (1740s)
Authors: Pococke, Richard, 1704-1765 Gravelot, Hubert François, 1699-1773 Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810
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Publisher: London : Printed for the author, by W. Bowyer : And sold by J. and P. Knapton, W. Innys, W. Meadows, G. Hawkins, S. Birt, T. Longman, C. Hitch, R. Dodsley, J. Nourse, and J. Rivington
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aboutthree feet long, and two and a half wide. There are feveral mofques inthe city which were formerly churches ; that which carries the greateftmark of antiquity, is the rotundo, and if it was not an antient temple,it was certainly built when Chriftianity was firft publickly eftabliflied,though I imagine it to have been a heathen temple, and probably apantheon; the walls are very thick, and built of good brick; a plan ofit may be feen in the fixty-fourth plate at C j the chapels round it arearched over with double arches of brick, excepting the two entrances tothe weft and fouth ; there are in them oblong Square niches which appearlike windows, and are now filled up; above thefe the wall is not, 1 fup-pofe, fo thick by twelve feet, and over every one of thefe apartmentsthere is an arched nich. The cupola is adorned with mofaic work, ap-pearing like eight frontifpieces of very grand buildings, the perfpefliveof which feemed to be very good; the apartment oppofitc to the en- I trance
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