 | Voyages and travels - 1760 - 244 pages
...gra. nite ; for the country to the eaft, the bed of the river, and the iflands, are all red granite. The quarries are not worked in deep : but the ftone is hewn out of the fides of the low hills. I obferved fome columns and an obelifk marked out in the quarries, and fhaped on two fides : they feemed... | |
 | Voyages and travels - 1767 - 582 pages
...granite ; for the country to the eaft, the bed of the river, and the iflands, are all red granite. The quarries are not worked in deep ; but the ftone is hewn out of the fides of the low hills. I obferved fome columns and an obelifk marked out in the quarrie?, and fhaped on two fides : they feemed... | |
 | John Pinkerton - Voyages and travels - 1814 - 886 pages
...all the country to the eaft, the iflands and bed of the Nile, being red granite, which is the Thebaic ftone mentioned by Herodotus ; the quarries are not...ftone .is hewn out of the fides of the low hills. I faw fome columns marked out in the quarries, and ihaped on two fides, particularly a long fquare *... | |
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I went about a mile to the fouth-eaft, to the quarries of gra. nite ; for the country to the eaft, the bed of the river, and the iflands, are all red granite. The quarries are not worked in deep : but the ftone is hewn out of the fides of the low hills.... 