 | 1829 - 682 pages
...many pieces 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...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.... | |
 | Great Britain - 1829 - 860 pages
...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...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 - Arabian Peninsula - 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 - Arabian Peninsula - 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... | |
 | India - 1854 - 494 pages
...took to be a close cement of pitch and gravel, of a similar, but not quite the same brownish color. This border serves to support its detached pieces...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... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - Arabian Peninsula - 1857 - 482 pages
...took to be a close cement of pitch and gravel of a similar, but not quite the same, brownish color, f This border serves to support its detached pieces;...two or three inches in breadth, and rises a little the iconoclastic principle of Islam, having once narrowly escaped destruction by order of El Hakim... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Arabian Peninsula - 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... | |
 | Arabian Peninsula - 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... | |
 | E. M. Wherry - Qurʼan - 1882 - 432 pages
...but, as it is said, it was proved to be no counterfeit by its peculiar quality of swimming on water.6 I took to be a close cement of pitch and gravel, of...and rises a little above the surface of the stone." — Burckhardt, pp. 137, 138, quoted in Muir's Life of Mahomet, vol. ii. chap. ii. Burton thinks it... | |
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It appeared to me like a lava, containing several small extraneous 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, composed of a substance which... 
