A History of the Knights of Pythias And Its Branches And Auxiliary Together Wit
A History of the Knights of Pythias And Its Branches And Auxiliary Together Wit
Hugh Goold Webb
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The stone has been quarried from the surface to one hundred feet or more in depth, making sheer perpendicular walls impossible to scale, and the only means of descent was by wooden ladders. Two thousand three hundred years ago, the bottom was a bare quarry of white stone, strewn with stones and stone dust. In the day time the sun threw its rays into this immense pit, and being reflected from all sides, made a most 104 HISTORY OF KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS intolerable heat, and in the evening, the air, ...sud- denly chilled at the setting of the sun rushed into this cavity and filled it with dampness almost as cold as ice. ^Ir. Crawford in "Rulers of the South" says, "it was a furnace in summer, bitter cold in win- ter, a fever hole in the autumn rains, a hell at all times, save in spring. " Into this place these seven thousand prisoners were let down by the cranes used to hoist the stones, they were fed with a ration of half a pint of water every day, and two pints of raw barley or other grain, just half the rations given their slaves, while the latter could obtain all the water they needed.
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