| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1875 - 900 pages
...dimensions; the Star chamber, about 500 ft. long and 70 ft. wide, the ceiling of which, To ft. high, is composed of black gypsum, and is studded with innumerable...light present a most striking resemblance to stars; and Cleveland's cabinet, an avenue about 2 m. long, spanned by an arch of 50 ft., with an average central... | |
| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1875 - 912 pages
...dimensions; the Star chamber, about 600 ft. long and 70 ft. wide, the ceiling of which, 70 ft. high, is composed of black gypsum, and is studded with innumerable...light present a most striking resemblance to stars; and Cleveland's cabinet, an avenue about 2 m. long, spanned by an arch of 50 ft., with an average central... | |
| Robert Thorne - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1889 - 502 pages
...rivers and cataracts. One chamber, the Slar, is about 500 feet long, 70 feet wide and 70 feet high; the ceiling is composed of black gypsum, and is studded with innumerable white points, that by a dim light resemble stars; hence the name. There are avenues one and a half and even two miles... | |
| Robert Thorne - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1889 - 538 pages
...rivers and cataracts. One chamber, the Star, is about 500 feet long, 70 feet wide and 70 f«-et high; the ceiling is composed of black gypsum, and is studded with innumerable whit«points, tliHt by "a dim light resemble stars; hence the name. There are avenues one and a half... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1893 - 528 pages
...reference. One chamber— the Star--ls about 600 feet long, 70 feet wide, TO feet high, the celling of which Is composed of black gypsum, and is studded with Innumerable white points, that by a dim light resemble stars, hence the name of the chamber. There are avenues one and a half... | |
| Kentucky. Bureau of Agriculture, Labor and Statistics - Agriculture - 1901 - 668 pages
...One chamber — the Star — is about 500 feet long, 70 feet wide, 70 feet high, the ceiling of which is composed of black gypsum and is studded with innumerable white points, that by dim light resemble stars, hence the name of the chamber. There are avenues one and a half and... | |
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