 | sir James Emerson Tennent (bart.) - 1859 - 702 pages
...forty-nine feet, and is clothed to the summit with trees of the largest size. i THE JAYTA WANA RAMA DAGOBA. The solid mass of masonry in this vast mound is prodigious....contents of the semicircular dome of brickwork and the platfonn of stone, seven hundred and twenty feet square and fifteen feet high, exceed twenty millton*... | |
 | tennent - 1859 - 694 pages
...forty-nine feet, and is clothed to the summit with trees of the largest size. THE JATTA-WANAEAMA CAGOR&. The solid mass of masonry in this vast mound is prodigious. Its diameter is tliree hundred and sixty feet, and its present height (including the pedestal and spire) two hundred... | |
 | Sir James Emerson Tennent - Natural history - 1860 - 704 pages
...forty-nine feet, and is clothed to the summit with trees of the largest size. THE JAYTA-WANA-HAMA DAOOBAThe solid mass of masonry in this vast mound is prodigious....(including the pedestal and spire) two hundred and forty-mine feet ; so that the contents of the semicircular dome of brickwork and the platform of stone,... | |
 | William Henry Giles Kingston - Adventure stories - 1860 - 552 pages
...prodigious. Its diameter is 360 feet, and its present height (including the pedestal and spire) 249 feet ; so that the contents of the semicircular dome of brickwork and the platform of stone, 720 feet square and 14 feet high, exceed 20,000,000 of cubical feet. Even with the facilities which... | |
 | Periodicals - 1860 - 698 pages
...mass of masonry in this vast mount is prodigious. Its diameter is three handred and siity feet, snd its present height (including the pedestal and spire) two hundred and forty.nine teet ; so that the contents of the semicircular dome of brickwork and the platform of stone, seven... | |
 | Alastair Mackenzie Ferguson - Sri Lanka - 1869 - 286 pages
...description of the Dagobas of Anurajapura, and of this ancient and once extensive and populous city: — The solid mass of masonry in this vast mound is prodigious. Its diameter is three hundred and sixty [390, F.] feet, and its present height (including the pedestal and spire) two hundred and fortynine... | |
 | Henry William Cave - Extinct cities - 1907 - 322 pages
...tanks later, we may here notice that this one is said to be the oldest and dates from BC 437. The lofcy dome which sixteen centuries ago stood gleaming from...stone seven hundred and twenty feet square and fifteen feel high exceed twenty millions of cubic feet. Even with the facilities which modern invention supplies... | |
 | Brahmachari Walisinha Harischandra - Anuradhapura (Sri Lanka) - 1908 - 254 pages
...report by Mr. Burrows, to the Colombo Museum." n о о а S я n (including the pedestal and spire) 249 feet ; so that the contents of the semicircular dome of brickwork and the platform of stone 720 feet square and 15 feet high, exceed twenty millions of cubic feet. Even with the facilities which... | |
 | Walisinha Harischandra - Social Science - 1998 - 244 pages
...Colombo Museum." Sir Emerson Tennent's remarks with reference to this edifice are as follows : — " The solid mass of masonry in this vast mound is prodigious. Its diameter is 360 feet, and its present height • (including the pedestal and spire) 249 feet ; so that the contents... | |
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The solid mass of masonry in this vast mound is prodigious. Its diameter is three hundred and sixty feet, and its present height (including the pedestal and spire) two hundred and forty-nine feet; so that the contents of the semi-circular dome of brickwork... 