 | 1829 - 696 pages
...by a violent blow, and then united again. It is very difficult to determine accurately the quality of this stone, which has been worn to its present...particles of a whitish and of a yellowish substance. Its colour is now a deep reddish brown, approaching to black : it is surrounded by a border, composed of... | |
 | 1857 - 1196 pages
...by a violent blow, and then united again. It is very difficult to determine accurately the quality of this stone, which has been worn to its present...particles of a whitish and of a yellowish substance. Its colour is now a deep reddish brown, approaching to black. It is surrounded on all sides by a border... | |
 | John Lewis Burckhardt - 1829 - 576 pages
...by a violent blow, and then united again. It is very difficult to determine accurately the quality of this stone, which has been worn to its present...particles, of a whitish and of a yellowish substance. Its colour is now a deep reddish brown, approaching to black : it is surrounded on all sides by a border,... | |
 | 1829 - 682 pages
...by a violent blow, and then united again. It is very difficult to determine accurately tha quality of this stone, which has been worn to its present...particles, of a whitish and of a yellowish substance. Its colour is now a deep reddish brown, approaching to black: it is surrounded on all sides by a border,... | |
 | John Lewis Burckhardt - 1829 - 492 pages
...by a violent blow, and then united again. It is very difficult to determine accurately the quality of this stone, which has been worn to its present...particles, of a whitish and of a yellowish substance. Its colour is now a deep reddish brown, approaching to black : it is surrounded on all sides by a border,... | |
 | 1829 - 860 pages
...This open square is enclosed on the eastern side by a colonnade : the pillar: stand in a quadruple which has been worn to its present surface by the millions of touches and kisses it had received. It appeared to me like a lava, containing several small extraneous particles of a whitish... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - 1832 - 430 pages
...by a violent blow, and then united again. It is very difficult to determine accurately the quality of this stone, which has been worn to its present...and kisses it has received. It appeared to me like a layer, containing several small extraneous particles, of a whitish and of a yellowish substance. Its... | |
 | Andrew Crichton - 1833 - 476 pages
...quality of the stone, it does not seem to be accurately determined. Burckhardt says it appeared to him like a lava, containing several small extraneous particles of a whitish and a yellowish substance. Ali Bey calls it a fragment of volcanic basalt, sprinkled with small-pointed... | |
 | 1854 - 484 pages
...by a violent blow, and then united again. It is very difficult to determine accurately the quality of this stone, which has been worn to its present...millions of touches and kisses it has received. It appears to me likn a lava, containing several small extraneous particles, of a whitish and a yellowish... | |
 | 1854 - 494 pages
...by a violent blow, and then united again. ,It is very difficult to determine accurately the quality of this stone, which has been worn to its present...millions of touches and kisses it has received. It appears to me liko a lava, containing several small extraneous particles, of a whitish and a yellowish... | |
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... smoothed : it looks as if the whole had been broken into many pieces by a violent blow, and then united again. It is very difficult to determine accurately the quality of this stone, which has been worn to its present surface by the millions of touches... 
