| Daniel Defoe - Great Britain - 1748 - 472 pages
...tached tached from any Rock, and, as Dr. Stukely thinks, lay there ever fince the Creation ; being folid Parts thrown out to the Surface of the fluid Globe, when its Rotation was firft imprefled. Marlborough, fo called from its Hills of Chalk, which antiently was called Marl. It... | |
| Daniel Defoe - 1761 - 464 pages
...detached from any Rock, and, as Dr. Stukeley thinks, lay there ever fince the Creation; being folid Farts thrown out to the Surface of the fluid Globe, when its Rotation was firtt impreffed. Mailbjrougb,{o called from its Hills of Chalk, which anciently was called Marl. It... | |
| J. Gronow - England - 1849 - 408 pages
...of white marble, and lie on the surface of the ground in great numbers. In the opinion of Stukely, they have lain here ever since the Creation (Flood,...said to have been erected anterior to the Conquest. GBEENWICH, Kent, five miles from London, a market town and parish, seated on the south bank of the... | |
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