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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~
Chapter 2-The Great Image
miles in circumference, fifteen miles on each
side; surrounded by a wall three hundred and
fifty feet high and eighty-seven feet thick, with
a moat, or ditch, around this, of equal cubic
capacity with the wall itself; divided into six
hundred and seventy-six squares, each two
and a quarter miles in circumference, by its
fifty streets, each one hundred and fifty feet in
width, crossing each other at right angles,
twenty-five running each way, every one of
them straight and level and fifteen miles in
length; its two hundred and twenty-five
square miles of inclosed surface, divided as
just described, laid out in luxuriant pleasure-
grounds and gardens, interspersed with
magnificent dwellings, — this city, with its
sixty miles of moat, its sixty miles of outer
wall, its thirty miles of river wall through its
center, its hundred and fifty gates of solid
