 Their manner of living is the following. Platforms, supported upon tall piles, stand in the middle of the lake, which are approached from the land by a single narrow bridge. At the first, the piles which bear up the platforms were fixed in their places...  Switzerland and the Swiss - Seite 142von Samuel Hawkins Marshall Byers - 1875 - 203 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Herodotus - 1859 - 586 Seiten
...effect his purpose. Their manner of living is the following. Platforms supported upon tall piles stand in the middle of the lake, which are approached from the land by a single narrow bridge.8 At the first, the piles which bear up the paeones, who possessed the most fertile and exposed... | |
 | Herodotus - 1859 - 590 Seiten
...effect his purpose. Their manner of living is the following. Platforms supported upon tall piles stand in the middle of the lake, which are approached from the land by a single narrow bridge.8 At the first, the piles which bear up the раюпев, who possessed the most fertile and... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1860 - 582 Seiten
...amphibious inhabitants of Lake Prasias, described by Herodotus. " Platforms supported upon tall piles' stand in the middle of the lake, which are approached from...single narrow bridge. At the first the piles which bear np the platforms were fixed in their places by the whole body of the citizens, but since that time... | |
 | Herodotus, George Rawlinson - 1862 - 474 Seiten
...OrbClus, aa appears from vii. 112. CHAP. 15-16. INHABITANTS OF LAKE PRASIAS. upon tall piles stand in the middle of the lake, which are approached from the land by a single narrow bridge.8 At the first, the piles which bear up the platforms were fixed in their places by the whole... | |
 | John Johnston Kelso - 1865 - 92 Seiten
...are approached from the land by asingle narrow bridge. At the first, piles which bear up the platform were fixed in their places by the whole body of the citizens, but afterwards the custom which has prevailed about fixing them is this : — They are brought from a hill... | |
 | Ferdinand Keller - 1866 - 650 Seiten
...efiect his purpose. Their manner of living is the following : platforms supported upon tall piles stand in the middle of the lake, which are approached from...by a single narrow bridge. At the first the piles whichbear up the platforms were fixed in their places by the whole body of the citizens ; but since... | |
 | 1867 - 590 Seiten
...us of the settlements on Prasias, the modern Takhyno, where the men lived on " platforms supported on tall piles, standing in the middle of the lake,...approached from the land by a single narrow bridge. . . . Each has his own hut, wherein he dwells upon one of the platforms, and each has also a trap-door,... | |
 | Ephraim Chambers - 1870 - 852 Seiten
...his puqjose. Their manner of living is the following. Platforms, Bupitorted upon tall piles, stand in the middle of the lake, which are approached from the land by a single narrow bridge. At the tirst, the piles which bear up the platforms were fixed in their places by the whole body of the citizens... | |
 | James Bonwick - 1880 - 544 Seiten
...huts on piles in the bed of Lake Prasias. He spoke thus : " Platforms supported upon tall piles stand in the middle of the lake, which are approached from the land by a single narrow bridge. Each," adds he, "has his own hut, wherein he dwells, upon one of the platforms ; and each has also... | |
 | 1880 - 938 Seiten
...modern Lake Takinos : — " Platforms, supported upon tall piles, stand in the middle of the lake, and are approached from the land by a single narrow bridge. At the first the piles were fixed in their places by the whole body of the citizens, but since that time the custom which... | |
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