| Great Britain - 1829 - 696 pages
...it now stands, in the year 1627. The famous ' black stone' forms a part of the sharp angle of this building, at four or five feet above the ground. It...stones of different sizes and shapes, well joined with a small quantity of cement, andperfectly smoothed: it looks as if the whole had been broken into... | |
| Arminianism - 1857 - 1196 pages
...feet above the ground. It is an irregular oval, above seven inches in diameter, with an undulating surface, composed of about a dozen smaller stones...together with a small quantity of cement, and perfectly well smoothed : it looks as if the whole had been broken into many pieces by a violent blow, and then... | |
| 1829 - 682 pages
...Gabriel, * is at the north-east corner of the Kaaba, near the door. > ' It forms,' says Mr. Burckhardt,' a part of the sharp angle of the building, at four...stones of different sizes and shapes, well joined • « «« Nous crayons que cette pierre miraculeuse est une jacinthe transparante transports du ciel... | |
| Andrew Crichton - Arabian Peninsula - 1833 - 476 pages
...breadth below, where it is studded with nails of the same metal. Thesurface is undulated, and seems composed of .about a dozen smaller stones of different sizes and shapes, but perfectly smooth, and well joined with a small quantity of cement. It looks as if the whole had... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1846 - 732 pages
...feet above the ground. It is an irregular oval, about seven inches in diameter, with an undulating surface, composed of about a dozen smaller stones...a small quantity of cement and perfectly smoothed. Every pilgrim kisses this utonc. As its surface has been much worn by the kisses and louches of die... | |
| Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1846 - 726 pages
...diameter", -with an undulating surface, composed of about a dozen smaller stones of different sizes nnd shapes, well joined together with a small quantity of cement and perfectly smoothed. Every pilgrim kisses this stone. As its surface has been much worn by the kisses and touches of the... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1851 - 738 pages
...feet above the ground. It is an irregular oval, about seven im-bo« in diameter, with an undulating surface, composed of about a dozen smaller stones...a small quantity of cement and perfectly smoothed. Every pilgrim kisses this stone. As its surface has been much worn by the kisses and touches of the... | |
| Sir Richard Francis Burton - Arabian Peninsula - 1856 - 514 pages
...feet above the ground.f It is an irregular oval, about seven inches in diameter, with an undulating surface, composed of about a dozen, smaller stones...together with a small quantity of cement, and perfectly well smoothed : it looks as if the whole had been broken into many pieces by a violent blow, and then... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1856 - 570 pages
...feet above the ground. It is .an irregular oval, about seven inches in diameter, with an undulating surface, composed of about a dozen smaller stones...shapes, well joined together with a small quantity of cemeut, and perfectly well smoothed: it looks as if the whole had been broken into many pieces by a... | |
| 1861 - 828 pages
...feet 9 inches from the ground, and is an irregular oval about 7 inches in diameter, with an undulating surface, composed of about a dozen smaller stones...together with a small quantity of cement, and perfectly well smoothed. It looks as if the whole had been broken into many pieces by a violent blow and then... | |
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