| Arthur Naylor Wollaston - 1886 - 460 pages
...feet from the ground. It is an irregular oval about 7 inches in diameter, with an undulating surface, composed of about a dozen smaller stones of different sizes and shapes, well joined together with a small quantity of cement, and perfectly wellsmoothed ; the whole looking... | |
| George Thomas Bettany - Islam - 1893 - 342 pages
...Burckhardt described it as an irregular oval about seven inches in diameter, with an undulated surface, composed of about a dozen smaller stones of different sizes and shapes, joined by a little cement and surrounded by a silver setting. It appears to be a meteoric stone; but... | |
| Edmund Fillingham King - Curiosities and wonders - 1894 - 712 pages
...swelling to a considerable breadth below, where it is studded with nails of the same metal. The surface is undulated, and seems composed of about a dozen...pieces by a severe concussion, and then re-united _ ;m appearance that may perhaps be explained by the various disaster* t4i which it has been exposed.... | |
| Success - 1902 - 532 pages
...the ground. It is an irregular oval of about seven inches in diameter, with an undulating surface, composed of about a dozen smaller stones of different sizes and shapes, well joined together with a small quantity of cement, and perfectly smoothed. It looks as if the whole... | |
| Arthur Naylor Wollaston - Islam - 1905 - 1256 pages
...feet from the ground. It is an irregular oval about 7 inches in diameter, with an undulating surface, composed . of about a dozen smaller stones of different sizes and shapes, well joined together with a small quantity of cement, and perfectly well smoothed ; the whole looking... | |
| Arthur Naylor Wollaston - Islam - 1905 - 586 pages
...feet from the ground. It is an irregular oval about 7 inches in diameter, with an undulating surface, composed of about a dozen smaller stones of different sizes and shapes, well joined together with a small quantity of cement, and perfectly well smoothed ; the whole looking... | |
| Sir Richard Francis Burton - Arabian Peninsula - 1906 - 510 pages
...above the ground.2 It is an irregular oval, about seven inches in diameter, with an undulating surface, composed of about a dozen smaller stones of different sizes and shapes, well joined together with a small quantity of cement, and perfectly well smoothed : it looks as if... | |
| Isaac Adams - Iran - 1906 - 550 pages
...Burkhardt says, "It is an irregular oval, about seven inches in diameter, with an undulating surface, composed of about a dozen smaller stones of different sizes and shapes, well joined together with a small quantity of cement, and perfectly well smoothed ; it looks as if... | |
| Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1907 - 996 pages
...above the ground. It is an irregular oval, about seven inches in diameter, with an undulating surface, composed of about a dozen smaller stones of different sizes and shapes, well joined together with a small quantity of cement, and perfectly well smoothed ; it looks as if... | |
| Esther Singleton - Architecture - 1912 - 462 pages
...above the ground. It is an irregular oval, about seven inches in diameter, with an undulating surface, composed of about a dozen smaller stones of different sizes and shapes, well joined together with a small quantity of cement, and perfectly well smoothed ; it looks as if... | |
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