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... palace and gardens based on their legendary reputation . The palace , he said , had a façade three thousand paces long which touched the clouds . Its flat roof had a white marble balustrade fifty feet high which bore colossal statues of ...
... palace and gardens based on their legendary reputation . The palace , he said , had a façade three thousand paces long which touched the clouds . Its flat roof had a white marble balustrade fifty feet high which bore colossal statues of ...
Page 108
... Palace of the Pleiades and the Palace of the Tree were shining examples . Each of these resi- dences had ample space within their walls for bathing pools , grounds for playing polo ( a game learnt from the Persians ) , and parks for ...
... Palace of the Pleiades and the Palace of the Tree were shining examples . Each of these resi- dences had ample space within their walls for bathing pools , grounds for playing polo ( a game learnt from the Persians ) , and parks for ...
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... palace , and shaded by other trees of a more natural constitution , with envious admiration . It had eighteen boughs carrying fruit of precious stones on which gold and silver birds sang when the breeze stirred them , in the manner of ...
... palace , and shaded by other trees of a more natural constitution , with envious admiration . It had eighteen boughs carrying fruit of precious stones on which gold and silver birds sang when the breeze stirred them , in the manner of ...
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