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Page 110 - ... Puebla.f West Indies. — The rocks of Bermuda consist essentially of limestones popularly known as coral limestone, the harder varieties of which are in some places worked as marble. In Cuba, a Madrepore marble and a cavernous white brecciated marble are reported. In Jamaica marbles are said to be " abundant along the southern base of the central chain of the eastern mountains and a great variety occurs in other localities, including black, white, green striped with gray, and white with brown...
Page iii - Marbles, xv & 392 рацее, 8vo. with 48 plates in chromolithographs/, cloth, 36s Boston, 1883 " The work presents the facts and speculations of original explorers and writers, so selected and arranged as to illustrate the value of limestone in some departments of geology, but more especially their use in the mechanic and the fine arts, and their history in civilization.
Page iii - Limestones are, in one sense, a link between the mineral and the animal kingdoms, since most of them have an organic origin and possess, on that account, an interest above that of most other rocks.
Page 314 - Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the brass for things of brass, the iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colors, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.
Page 235 - ... thirty inches in depth and ten feet broad. It has no dorsal fin. Its pectorals are six and a half feet in length and two and a half feet in width, tapering from near the middle toward the end, which is quite pointed.
Page 250 - ... the world. Neither Jew nor Christian is permitted to intrude into this magnificent square under pain of death. From the side of the Sahn a gilded archway admits the pilgrim to the mausoleum, the exact form of which it is not possible to ascertain, on account of the meaner buildings that surround it. A silver gate, the gift of Nadir Shah, opens into the chief apartment, which rises like the centre nave of a cathedral into a noble dome, and branches out in the form of a cross.
Page 216 - It grows well on several soils, and in good situations attains a height of from one hundred to one hundred and twenty feet.
Page 226 - Europe ; and he, by indefatigable zeal, with much skill succeeded in rescuing this long-lost art from oblivion. Being placed on the confines of Asia, where damask blades are still held in high estimation, he had opportunities of seeing sabres, ataghans, and daggers of great value, which some of...
Page 21 - Coral islands have been shown to be literally monuments erected over departed lands ; and, through the evidence from such records, it is discovered that the Pacific has its deep-water mountain chains, or lines of volcanic summits, not merely hundreds, but thousands of miles in length. Some of the ranges of high islands are proved by such records to have an under- water prolongation, longer than that above water : the Hawaian Islands for example, which have a length of only four hundred miles from...
Page 196 - ... That at some subsequent period the ground on which the temple stood subsided slowly and gradually ; the salt water, entering through a channel which connected the temple with the sea, or by infiltration through the sand, mixed itself with the water of the hot spring containing carbonate of lime, and formed a lake of brackish water in the area of the temple, which, as the land subsided, became deeper, and formed a dark incrustation. The proofs are, that sea-water alone does not produce a similar...