 | 1819 - 596 páginas
...part of the mountain ; that the others were in large pieces above ground ; that they cut it off with hard stone, and then beat it flat into pieces of the size of a sixpence, but of an oval shape.' Captain Ross made them several presents, and promised further to reward them if they would bring him... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1819 - 592 páginas
...part of the mountain ; that the others were in large pieces above ground ; that they cut it off with hard stone, and then beat it flat into pieces of the size of a sixpence, but of an oval shape.' Captain Ross made them several presents, and promised further to reward them if they would bring him... | |
 | 1819 - 544 páginas
...pieces above ground, and not of so hard a nature; that they cut it off with a hard stone, (porphyry) and then beat it flat into pieces of the size of a sixpence, but of an oval shape.' The place mentioned as the site of this phenomenon was 25 miles distant, and the natives broke all their... | |
 | 1819 - 532 páginas
...pieces above ground, and not of so hard a nature; that they cut it off \vith a hard stone, (porphyry) and then beat it flat into pieces of the size of a sixpence, but of an oval shape.' arity which always distinguishes such masses wherever met with. The report of this admirable chemist... | |
 | American Geographical Society of New York - 1894 - 922 páginas
...mountain before mentioned ; that it was in several large masses, of which one in particular, which was harder than the rest, was a part of the mountain;...size of a sixpence, but of an oval shape. . . . the place where this metal was found, which is called Sowallick, was at least twenty-five miles distant... | |
 | Thomas Rupert Jones - 1875 - 908 páginas
...that one of the iron masses, harder than the rest, was a part of " the mountain ; that the otherswere in large pieces above ground " and "not of so hard...iron from Ofivak have a great tendency to undergo a sort of spontaneous corrosion, due to the presence of soluble chlorides enclosed within them. The... | |
 | Nels Christian Nelson - 1907 - 376 páginas
...that the others were in large pieces above ground and not of so hard nature; that they [the people] cut it off with a hard stone, and then beat it flat...of the size of a sixpence, but of an oval shape." 3 The locality being some twenty-five miles back on the route which had been traversed, Ross was unable... | |
 | 1917 - 398 páginas
...that the others were in large pieces above ground and not of so hard nature; that they [the people] cut it off with a hard stone, and then beat it flat...a sixpence, but of an oval shape." ' The locality being some twenty-five miles back on the route which had been traversed, Ross was unable to visit it... | |
 | 1894 - 658 páginas
...mountain before mentioned ; that it was in several large masses, of which one in particular, which was harder than the rest, was a part of the mountain:...size of a sixpence, but of an oval shape. . . . the place where this metal was found, which is called Sowallick, was at least twenty-five miles distant... | |
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... harder than the rest, was a part of the mountain; that the others were in large pieces above ground, and not of so hard a nature; that they cut it off with a hard stone, and then beat it flat into pieces of the size of a sixpence, but of an oval shape. 
