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" This locality is apparently on or about the south base of the west Lomond Hill, overlooking Loch Leven. Subjacent to the limestone, which is richly fossiliferous, is ochre interbedded with shale, according to Dr. M'Kelvie. This ochre abounds in globular... "
Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological Society - Page 265
by Edinburgh Geological Society - 1870
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Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, Volume 11

Geologists' Association - Geology - 1891 - 806 pages
...Auckland, observes — " A Fossil Resin is very frequently found imbedded in the coal, sometimes in pieces from the size of a fist to that of a man's head, but usually only in smaller groups. " It is transparent, very brittle, and has a conchoidal, and quite...
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Journal of the Geological Society of Dublin, Volume 12

Geological Society of Dublin - Geology - 1871 - 350 pages
...richly fossiliferous, is ochre interbedded with shale, according to Dr. M'Kelvie. This ochre abounds in globular masses of iron pyrites, known to the quarrymen...that of a man's head. Incredible as it may appear, this iron pyrites was the substance dug out as gold by picks and trowels, and carried away in heavy...
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Journal of the Royal Geological Society of Ireland, Volume 2

Royal Geological Society of Ireland - Geology - 1871 - 372 pages
...richly fossiliferous, is ochre interbedded with shale, according to Dr. M'Kelvie. This ochre abounds in globular masses of iron pyrites, known to the quarrymen..."fairy balls," from the size of a fist to that of aman'shead. Incredible as it may appear, this iron p}-rites was the substance dug out as gold by picks...
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Journal of the Royal Geological Society of Ireland, Volume 2

1871 - 350 pages
...abounds in globular masses of iron pyrites, known to the quanymen as "fairy balls," from the size o'fa fist to that of a man's head. Incredible as it may appear, this iron pyrites was the substance dug out as gold by picks and trowels, and carried away in heavy...
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Sessional Papers - Legislature of the Province of Ontario, Volume 6

Ontario. Legislative Assembly - Ontario - 1882 - 470 pages
...narrows now to fifty yards, with a strong,, smooth rapid, and a bed composed entirely of stones, mostly from the size of a fist to that of a man's head. The. course is west for quarter of a mile, at which point a brook enters on the north side. Thereafter...
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Treatise on Gynaecology: Medical and Surgical

Samuel Pozzi - Gynecology - 1891 - 650 pages
...effusion then is directed toward the vagina and rectum. The tumor is usually of medium size, varying from the size of a fist to that of a man's head. It is frankly lateral, and, should two tumors exist, one is always much larger than the other. The...
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The Mining Engineer, Volume 5

Mineral industries - 1893 - 816 pages
...by Dr. von Hochstetter,* as follows : — " Fossil resin embedded in the coal, sometimes in pieces from the size of a fist to that of a man's head, but usually only in smaller groups. It is transparent, very brittle, and has a conchoidal and quite...
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A Treatise on Gynaecology, Medical and Surgical

Samuel Pozzi - Gynecology - 1897 - 966 pages
...effusion then is directed toward the vagina and rectum. The tumor is usually of medium size, varying from the size of a fist to that of a man's head. It is frankly lateral, and, should two tumors exist, one is always much larger than the other. The...
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The Fur Seals and Fur-seal Islands of the North Pacific Ocean: The Asiatic ...

David Starr Jordan, United States. Department of the Treasury. Commission on Fur-Seal Investigations, Leonhard Stejneger, George Archibald Clark - Fur-bearing animals - 1898 - 592 pages
...while in other places the equally narrow beach is fringed by a steep bevel of rounded, waveworn stones from the size of a fist to that of a man's head. A couple of such beaches, with a quantity of driftwood left at the upper line of the bevel next to...
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Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, Volume 15

Science - 1883 - 682 pages
...ed., p. 79). He describes it as follows : — " Fossil resin imbedded in the coal, sometimes in pieces from the size of a fist to that of a man's head, but usually only in smaller groups. It is transparent, very brittle, and has a conchoidal and quite...
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