 | Diodorus (Siculus.) - 1814 - 686 pages
...salt-petre, and that they were melted by the inundation of the river, and being so dissolved, every thing was washed away but the building itself. But this...place whence they dug it ; for they say, there were three hundred and sixty thousand men employed in this work, and the whole was scarce completed in twenty... | |
 | Diodorus (Siculus.) - 1814 - 692 pages
...salt-petre, and that they were melted by the inundation of the river, and being so dissolved, every thing was washed away but the building itself. But this...place whence they dug it ; for they say, there were three hundred and sixty thousand men employed in this work, and the whole was scarce completed in twenty... | |
 | Diodorus (Siculus.) - 1814 - 686 pages
...salt-petre, and that they were melted by the inundation of the river, and being so dissolved, every thing was washed away but the building itself. But this...multitude of hands that raised the mounts, the same car"> ried back the earth to the place whence they dug it; for they say, there were three hundred and... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 686 pages
...that they were melted by the Inundation of the River, and being so dissolv'd, everything was washt away but the Building itself. But this is not the...the thing ; but the great Multitude of Hands that rais'd the Mounts, the same carry'd back the Earth to the Place whence they dug it, for they say there... | |
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... god, and not built by degrees by the hands of men. Some of the Egyptians tell wonderful things, and invent strange fables concerning these works, affirming that the mounts were made of salt and salt-petre, and that they were melted by the inundation... 