 | 1845 - 624 páginas
...sort of which a simple burning with the brambles, which abound in the Desert, is sufficient ; while the bitumen, to deprive it of its brittleness and...brick, must be boiled with a certain proportion of oil ; and after all, the tenacity of the bitumen bears no comparison with that of the mortar. The bricks... | |
 | Thomas Maurice - 1816 - 452 páginas
...outside and the inside of the ark was incrusted with it, Gen. vi. 14. It may be proper to add here, that the bitumen, to deprive it of its brittleness and...capable of being applied to the brick, must be boiled wjth a certain proportion of oil, and that it retains its tenacity longest in a humid situation. Mr.... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 788 páginas
...outside and the inside of the ark was incrusted with it. Gen. vi. 14. It may be proper to add here, that the bitumen, to deprive it of its brittleness, and...brick, must be boiled with a certain proportion of oil, and that it retains its tenacity longest in a humid situation. Mr. Rich informs us, that it is, 'at... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 768 páginas
...it. (Jen. vi. 14. It may be proper to add here, that the bitumen, to deprive it of its brittloness, and render it capable of being applied to the brick, must be boiled with a certain proportion of oil, and that it retains its tenacity longest in a humid situation. Mr. Rich informs us, that it is, ' at... | |
 | 1836 - 544 páginas
...sort of which a simple burning with the brambles, which abound in the Desert is sufficient ; while the bitumen, to deprive it of its brittleness, and...brick, must be boiled with a certain proportion of oil. The bricks which Niebuhr mentions as being so easily separated, were all laid in bitumen. The principal... | |
 | Claudius James Rich - 1839 - 490 páginas
...sort of which a simple burning with the brambles, which abound in the Desert, is sufficient ; while the bitumen, to deprive it of its brittleness, and...brick, must be boiled with a certain proportion of oil ; and after all, the tenacity of the bitumen bears no comparison with that of the mortar. The bricks... | |
 | Quintus Curtius Rufus - 1841 - 1074 páginas
...tort of which a simple burning with the bramblei, which abound in the desert, it sufficient; while the bitumen, to deprive it of its brittleness and...brick, must be boiled with a certain proportion of oil: and after all the tenacity of the bitumen bears no comparison with that of the mortar. The bricks which... | |
 | Quintus Curtius Rufus - 1841 - 1080 páginas
...brambles, which abound in the desert, is sufficient; while the bitumen, to deprive it of its britt¡eness and render it capable of being applied to the brick, must be boiled with a certain proportion of oil: and after all the tenacity of the bitumen bear» no comparison with that of the mortar. The bricks... | |
 | Xenophon - 1881 - 672 páginas
...— тгЯй'Лх? óirraíc, к. т. Я. " With burned bricks, laid in bitumen." Literally, "lying in bitumen." The substance here meant is the compact...good cement, but, in the opinion of Rich, one far inferior to the lime cement, which, according to him, the Babylonians most generally employed. There... | |
 | 1836 - 1048 páginas
...sort of which a simple burning with the brambles, which abound in the Desert is sufficient ; while the bitumen, to deprive it of its brittleness, and...brick, must be boiled with a certain proportion of oil. The bricks which Niebuhr mentions as being so easily separated, were all laid in bitumen. The principal... | |
| |
... was the one most generally employed. The preparation necessary for the bitumen is a much more expensive and troublesome one than that requisite for lime, for the commoner sort of which a simple burning with the brambles, which abound in the Desert,... 