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Updated: June 11, 2025
These shafts have been found in the ruins of Babylon and of other Chaldæan cities. Nothing of the kind has been discovered in Assyria, and for a very simple reason. It would have been impossible to preserve them in the soft paste, the kind of pisé, we have described.
After the rise of Seleucia and Ctesiphon, however, the gardens would rapidly hasten to decay, but they must have been solidly built in the first instance to last as long as they did. The pisé vaults of the Ninevite palaces could never have stood so well.
So, so, they're gone Come, Francis, you shall have the Honour of undressing me for the Encounter; but 'twill be a sweet one, Francis. Bel. Sir Feeb. But is the young Rogue laid, Francis is she stoln to Bed? What Tricks the young Baggages have to whet a man's Appetite? Bel. Sir Feeb. A pise of those Bandstrings the more haste the less speed. Bel. Be it so in all things, I beseech thee, Venus.
The masons of Babylon and of other southern cities made a much more extensive use of burnt brick than those of the north. In Assyria the masses of pisé have as a rule no other covering than the slabs of alabaster and limestone, and above, a thin layer of stucco.
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