Word: feet
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...ancient city has been found in a number of places. A broad, paved street has been laid bare, and a great number of red figures and vases of an exceedingly ancient period have been found. It was necessary to excavate at great depth, sometimes reaching nearly thirty feet below the surface...
...Schliemann made a great discovery. Upon excavating the so-called hill of Troy, he found it to be a heap of walls, houses and rubbish, for fully half its height. On a hill which was originally sixty feet high, nine different settlements had been built; city upon city. The second city was built high walled upon the first, and was followed by the third, fourth, and fifth, in nearly the same limits, until the builders of the sixth city extended bounds and founded Troy. On Troy were built two unimportant Greek cities and, finally, in the time of Augustus...
...large map accompanying the Memoir gives a general view of the ruins showing the position of the pyramids upon which stand the temples and other buildings, portions of which are covered with sculptures. Extending to the top of one of these pyramids is a stairway about forty feet wide and one hundred feet high. The front of each step of this stairway is elaborately carved with hieroglyphs and here and there a human figure...
...photographs, showing the face of the structure where the river has washed away a portion of it, illustrates the great wall one hundred feet in height. In this wall there is evidence that the place has been occupied at successive periods and that one city has been built over the ruins of another. The explorations of the Museum have shown that many of the large mounds are really the ruins of temples built of care fully cut blocks of stone. In these temples are a number of chambers, several of which have been cleared in the process of exploration...
...yesterday. In the last two matches with Princeton the Harvard "gunners" fared badly, being beaten by large scores. The excellent score made yesterday afternoon thoroughly atones, however, for the former defeats, restores the confidence of the University in the Shooting Club, and puts the club once more upon its feet...