 | 1817 - 628 pages
...rocks on which they stood; partly to the decay of the buildings themselves, only ten of these remain. Aios Stephanos, which we visited, is among the most...of the number ; its height is upwards of 180 feet.' After describing the peculiar and most striking scene formed by this group, or grove, of aspiring and... | |
 | John Foster - 1858 - 626 pages
...rocks on which they stood, partly to the decay of the buildings themselves, only ten of these remain. Aios Stephanos, which we visited, is among the most...of the number ; its height is upwards of 180 feet" " A small wooden shed projected beyond the plane of the cliff, from which a rope, passing over a pulley... | |
 | John Foster - 1858 - 624 pages
...on which they stood, partly to the decay of the buildings themselves, only ten of these remain. AioB Stephanos, which we visited, is among the most extraordinary...of the number ; its height is upwards of 180 feet." " A small wooden shed projected beyond the plane of the cliff, from which a rope, passing over a pulley... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1817 - 656 pages
...rocks on which they stood, partly to the decay of the buildings themselves, only ten of these remain. Aios Stephanos, which we visited, is among the most...of the number , its height is upwards of 180 feet.' After describing the peculiar and most striking scene formed by this group, or grove, of aspiring and... | |
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... plane of elevation as the perpendicular faces of the rock. " The number of monasteries at Meteora is said to have been formerly... 