 | 1819 - 596 pages
...entrance into the quarries by a flight of seventy-seven steps, (the depth being seventeen metres,) and to sink a well from the surface, down which the...preliminaries had been completed, the ceremony of blessing and consecrating the intended catacombs was performed with great solemnity, and on that same... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1819 - 622 pages
...entrance into the quarries by a flight of seventy-seven steps, (the depth being seventeen metres,) and to sink a well from the surface, down which the...lower vaults, and built pillars to prop the roof. A\ hen all these necessary preliminaries hud been completed, the ceremony of blessing and consecrating... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1819 - 592 pages
...entrance into the quarries by a flight of seventy-seven steps, (the depth being seventeen metres,) and to sink a well from the surface, down which the...that part of the quarries which was designed for the wreat charnel-house, opened a communication between the upper and lower vaults, and built pillars to... | |
 | A. and W. Galignani (Firm) - 1827 - 1276 pages
...Mont Souris was allotted for this purpose; a house, known by the name of la Tombe Isoire, or liouard (from a famous robber, who once infested that neighbourhood),...part of the quarries which was designed for the great charnel house, opened a communication between the upper and lower vaults, and built pillars to prop... | |
 | Galignani A. and W. - 1827 - 1014 pages
...rii l r.nnv into the quarries by a flight of seventyseven steps, and to sink a well from the surfacr. down which the bones might be thrown. Meantime, the...part of the quarries which was designed for the great charuel house, opened a communication between the upper and lower vaults, and built pillars to prop... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 809 pages
...an entrance into the quarries by a flight of seventy-seven steps (the depth being seventeen metres), and to sink a well from the surface, down which the...part of the quarries which was designed for the great chamel-house, opened a communication between the upper and lower vaults, and built pillars to prop... | |
 | A. and W. Galignani and Co - 1830 - 956 pages
...ground adjoining ; and the first operations were to make an entrance into the quarries by a flight of 77 steps, and to sink a well from the surface down which...part of the quarries which was designed for the great charnel house, opened a communication between the upper and lower vaults, and built pillars to prop... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 852 pages
...unexceptionable in all respects, was ready to receive them. That part of the quarries under the Plaine de Mont Souris was allotted for this purpose ; a house,...consecrating the intended catacombs was performed, and on the same day the removal from the cemetery began. All the crosses, tombstones, and monuments... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 874 pages
...unexceptionable in all respects, was ready to receive them. That part of the quarries under the Plaine de Mont Souris was allotted for this purpose ; a house,...lower vaults, and built pillars to prop the roof. \Vhen all these necessary preliminaries had been completed, the ceremony of consecrating the intended... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 836 pages
...an entrance into the quarries by a flight of seventy-seven steps (the depth being seventeen metres), and to sink a well from the surface, down which the...preliminaries had been completed, the ceremony of blessing and consecrating the intended catacombs was performed with great solemnity ; and on that same... | |
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... steps, and to sink a well from the surface, down which the bones might be thrown. Meantime, the workmen below walled off that part of the quarries which was designed for the great charnel-house, opened a communication between the upper and lower vaults,... 