...lieutenant in company with Dr. Anderson, went up and examined it. 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...

...the general mass, at the head of a deep, narrow, and abrupt chasm." On a closer examination he says : We found the pillar to be of solid salt, capped with...pyramidal behind. The upper or rounded part is about forty feet high, restingon a kind of oval pedestal, from forty to sixty feet above the level of the...

...landed, and proceeded towards this object over a beach of soft 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 pyramidal...

...hauled more off shore. Soon after, to our astonishment, we saw on the eastern side of Usdum, one-third the distance from its north extreme, a lofty round...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...

...passing along the bottom. The United States expedition, under Lieutenant Lynch, discovered a pillar of salt, capped with carbonate of lime, cylindrical in front, and pyramidal behind, on the eastern side of Usdum, about one-third of the distance from the north end of the ridge of salt....

...general mass, at the head of a deep, narrow, and abrupt chasm." On a closer examination he says : \Ve found the pillar to be of solid salt, capped with...pyramidal behind. The upper or rounded part is about forty feet high, restingon a kind of oval pedestal, from forty to sixty feet above the level of the...

...shore, and Dr. Anderson and I went up* and examined it. Tho 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...

...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...lime, cylindrical in front, and pyramidal behind. v The upper or rounded part is about forty feet high, resting on a kind of oval pedestal, from forty...

...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...

...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...