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Second Part
A further Account of King
The prodigiousness of the work may be understood by the
number of the men employed in this structure there
being 10,000 men per month in to hew down
timber; 70,000 to carry burdens, 80,000 to hew the
stones, & 3,300 overseers who were all employed for seven
seven years. There was another edifice built over
the Temple of the same dimensions with itself & makes
the whole height 120 cubits, and the whole building
was of free stone, so exactly joined, that it seemed
to be one entire solid rock, pouring these of its own
accord; this Temple was encompassed with a wall of three
cubits high to exclude the profane multitude & admit
none but the priest, & it was called Gisors; without
this wall stood a square temple, the doors of which was coverd
covered with gold, & all the people that were purified might
enter here and from the ramparts which supported the wall
was 800 cubits on the top equal to a common place, or two
foot & a half, & the length of the ramparts below was 1,000 cubits
the bredth 100 Cubits, & the highth 300 cubits, the stones of
which they were built were 40 cubits long 25 broad & 8
high those were all of marble cut with saws & so exactly
joined as to decieve the eye & looked all like one stone, the
pillars of persian marble were l,453 joined to the walls of [1 Kings 6]
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Page 1st from page 38
Second Part
A further Account of King Temple
The prodigiousness of the work may be understood by the
number of men employed in this structure there
being 10,000 men per month in to hew down
timber; 70,000 to carry burdens, 80,000 to hew the
stones, & 3,300 overseers who were all employed for
seven years. There was another edifice built over
the Temple of the same dimensions with itself & makes
the whole height 120 cubits, and the whole building
was of free stone, so exactly joined, that it seemed
to be one entire solid rock, pouring these of its own
accord; this Temple was encompassed with a wall of three
cubits high to exclude the profane multitude & admit
none but the priest, & it was called Gisors; without
this wall stood a square temple, the doors of which was coverd
covered with gold, & all the people that were purified might
enter here and from the ramparts which supported the wall
was 800 cubits on the top equal to a common place, or two
foot & a half, & the length of the ramparts below was 1,000 cubits
the bredth 100 Cubits, & the highth 300 cubits, the stones of
which they were built were 40 cubits long 25 broad & 8
high those were all of marble cut with saws & so exactly
joined as to decieve the eye & looked all like one stone, the
pillars of persian marble were l,453 joined to the walls of