 | 1829 - 682 pages
...gravel, of a similar, but not quite the same brownish colour. This border serves to support its detached pieces; it is two or three inches in breadth, and...encircled by a silver band, broader below than above, and OH the two sides, with a considerable swelling below, as if a part of the stone were hidden under it.... | |
 | 1829 - 860 pages
...gravel, of a similar, but not quite the same brownish colour. This border serves to support its detached pieces; it is two or three inches in breadth, and...the stone. Both the border and the stone itself are encir. cled by a silver band, broader below than above and on the two sides, with a considerable swell,... | |
 | Andrew Crichton - 1833 - 476 pages
...the same colour, resembling a cement of pitch and gravel, and from two to three inches in breadth. Both the border and the stone itself are encircled by a silver band, swelling to a considerable breadth below, where it is studded with nails of the same metal. Thesurface... | |
 | Andrew Crichton - 1834 - 436 pages
...the same colour, resembling a cement of pitch and gravel, and, from two to three inches in breadth. Both the border and the stone itself are encircled by a silver band, swelling to a considerable breadth below, where it is studded with nails of the same metal. The surface... | |
 | 1854 - 494 pages
...gravel, of a similar, but not quite the same brownish color. This border serves to support its detached pieces ; it is two or three inches in breadth, and...are encircled by a silver band, broader below than abuve, and on the two sides, with a considerable swelling below, as if a part of the stone were hidden... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1856 - 570 pages
...gravel of a similar, but not quite the same, brownish colour. This border serves to support its detached pieces ; it is two or three inches in breadth, and...considerable swelling below, as if a part of the stone were hiddeu under it. The lower part of the border is studded with silver nails.' "—Vol. iii. pp. 158-162.... | |
 | Edmund Fillingham King - 1860 - 376 pages
...the same colour, resembling a cement of pitch and gravel, and from two to three inches in breadth. Both the border and the stone itself are encircled by a silver band, swelling to a considerable breadth below, where it is studded with nails of the same metal. The surface... | |
 | 1872 - 354 pages
...took to be a close cement of pitch and gravel ; this border serves to support its detached pieces. Both the border and the stone itself are encircled by a silver band." Towards the end of November the caravans from Syria and Egypt arrived, and at the same time Mohammed... | |
 | 1874 - 368 pages
...I took to be a close cement of pitch and gravel; this border serves to support its detached pieces. Both the border and the stone itself are encircled by a silver band." Towards the end of November the caravans from Syria and Egypt arrived, and at the same time Mohammed... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton, Richard Francis Burton - 1879 - 576 pages
...of the »tone. Both the border anil tbu stone iUclf are encircleil by a silver band,1 broader Inflow than above, and on the two sides, with a considerable swelling below, an if a part of the stone were hidden under it. The lower part of the border is studded with silver... | |
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Its colour is now a deep reddish brown, approaching to black: it is surrounded on all sides by a border, composed of a substance which I took to be a close cement of pitch and gravel, of a similar, but not quite the same brownish colour. 
