| 1845 - 624 pages
...They pulled ashore to examine this singular appearance. " The beach was a soft slimy mud encrusted with salt, and a short distance from the water covered with saline fragments and flakes of bitumen." They found " the pillar to be of solid salt, capped with carbonate of lime, cylindrical in front, and... | |
| 1842 - 612 pages
...landed, and proceeded towards this object over a beach of softl slimy mud, encrusted with salt ; and at a short distance from the water, covered with saline fragments and flakes of bitumen, the pillar was found to be of solid salt, capped with carbonate of lime, cylindrical in front, and... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1853 - 704 pages
...naturally excited their great astonishment, and they immediately pulled in to examine it. They found it to be of solid salt, capped with carbonate of lime, cylindrical in front, and pyramidal behind. A prop or buttress connected it with the mountain in the rear. This pillar they evidently determined... | |
| 1851 - 592 pages
...the shore, and Dr. Anderson and I went up and examined it. The beach was a soft, slimy mud, encrusted with salt, and a short distance from the water covered...capped with carbonate of lime, cylindrical in front and pyramidial bchind. The upper or rounded part is about forty feet high, resting on a kind of oval pedestal,... | |
| Criticism - 1849 - 660 pages
...the shore, and Dr. Anderson and I went up and examined it. The beach was a soft, slimy mud encrusted with salt, and a short distance from the water, covered...pyramidal behind. The upper or rounded part is about forty feet high, resting on a kind of oval pedestal, from forty to sixty feet above the level of the... | |
| American literature - 1849 - 600 pages
...the shore, and Dr. Anderson and I went up and examined it. The beach was a soft, slimy mud, encrusted with salt, and a short distance from the water, covered...pyramidal behind. The upper or rounded part is about forty feet high, resting on a kind of oval pedestal, from forty to sixty feet above the level of the... | |
| Theology - 1850 - 836 pages
...Mountain) one third of the distance from its north extremity, a pillar of solid salt was discovered, capped with carbonate of lime, cylindrical in front...pyramidal behind. The upper or rounded part is about forty feet high, resting on a kind of oval pedestal, from forty to sixty feet above the level of the... | |
| American periodicals - 1849 - 648 pages
...short distance from the water, covered with saline fragments and bleaks of bitumen. The pillar was of solid salt, capped with carbonate of lime, cylindrical in front and pyramidal behind. The upper part was about 40 feet high, resting on an oval pedestal from 40 to 60 feet above the level of the... | |
| Presbyterian Church of England - 1849
...general mass. We immediately pulled in for the shore, and Dr. Anderson and I wentup and examined it. We found the pillar to be of solid salt, capped with...pyramidal behind. The upper or rounded part is about forty feet high, resting on a kind of oval pedestal, from forty to sixty feet above the level of the... | |
| American periodicals - 1849 - 602 pages
...the shore, and Dr. Anderson and 1 went up and examined it. The beach was a soft, slimy mud, encrusted s semblance, in no mould Of beautiful proportion cast...by a gigantic head, With eyes keen, deeply sunk, an forty feet high, resting on a kind of oval pedestal, from forty to sixty feet above the level of the... | |
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