 | Voyages and travels - 1760 - 244 pages
...the race of the Mamalukes, who lived about the year 1279, which is alfo built round a fmall court. The entrance to the grand apartment is by a fine old door, fomewhat in the Gothic tafte. It has a magnificent faloon in the figure of a Greek crofs, with a cupola... | |
 | Charles Thompson - Arabian Peninsula - 1767 - 292 pages
...Carpets. We we re admitted into one of thefe magnificent Houfes, faid to have been built by Babarites, a Sultan of Egypt, who lived towards the End of the...for two Pillars on each Side of it, which, though cutout of one Stone, are wrought in fuch a manner, that each of them appears like two Links of a Chain,... | |
 | Voyages and travels - 1767 - 612 pages
...the race of the Mamalukes, who lived about the year 1279; which is alfo built round a fmall court. The entrance to the grand apartment is by a fine old door, fomewhat in the Gothic tafte. It has a magnificent laloon in the figure of a Greek crofs, with a cupola... | |
 | Thomas Smith - Civilization - 1803 - 330 pages
...have been built by a sultan of Egypt towards the end of the thirteenth century is very magnificent. The entrance to the grand apartment is by a fine old door, somewhat in the Gothic taste, but chietiy remarkable for two pillars on each side of it, which appear... | |
 | John Pinkerton - Voyages and travels - 1814 - 886 pages
...the year 1 279. The houie is built round a fmall court, in which there are feveral large apartments. The entrance to the grand apartment is by a fine old door, fomething in the Gothic tafle ; there is one thing very particular, a fort of double pillars on each fide of the door, cut... | |
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Baharites, a Sultan of Egypt, who lived towards the End of the thirteenth Century. The Entrance to the grand Apartment is by a fine old Door, fomething in the Gothic Tafte... 