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Page 336
... fissures . The rock is of the same structure with that just now described , but its grain is larger , and the proportion of black matter smaller . When large rocks are exposed to the air , they break into immense masses , separated by ...
... fissures . The rock is of the same structure with that just now described , but its grain is larger , and the proportion of black matter smaller . When large rocks are exposed to the air , they break into immense masses , separated by ...
Page 362
... fissures , but closely united like the layers of some whet stonnes and often undulated like the veins of timber ... fissures containing reddish ochre . The plates are of very various shades of white . The whitest are selected and ...
... fissures , but closely united like the layers of some whet stonnes and often undulated like the veins of timber ... fissures containing reddish ochre . The plates are of very various shades of white . The whitest are selected and ...
Page 403
... fissure or stratification is observable . have no doubt that this is a granite in a state of decay ; and if any conglutinating power should give firmness to its parts , we should then have a complete sandstone . A most curious ...
... fissure or stratification is observable . have no doubt that this is a granite in a state of decay ; and if any conglutinating power should give firmness to its parts , we should then have a complete sandstone . A most curious ...
Page 406
... fissures . Above this a kind of rotten clay , apparently the same stone in a state of decay 1 foot thick . Above that rotten sandstone two feet thick , above that , red earth twenty feet . This is towards the west end : farther east ...
... fissures . Above this a kind of rotten clay , apparently the same stone in a state of decay 1 foot thick . Above that rotten sandstone two feet thick , above that , red earth twenty feet . This is towards the west end : farther east ...
Page 419
... fissures , that this is not very certainly ascer- tainable . The air does not seem to act strongly on it , as the angles of the masses are sharp , but it is too soft and too much broken by fissures to be a useful material for building ...
... fissures , that this is not very certainly ascer- tainable . The air does not seem to act strongly on it , as the angles of the masses are sharp , but it is too soft and too much broken by fissures to be a useful material for building ...
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amirs ancient appearance bank Baudh Bengal Bhagalpur Bhagalpur district Bhuiyas Bihar Bihar and Orissa Birhor Brahui brick Buchanan called century channel consists contains coses crossed cultivated decay district Dravidian east feet Firishta fissures folktales further Ganga Ganges goddessling granite Gupta half a mile hill Hindu India inscription Jayapura Journal K. P. Jayaswal Kalinga Kalinganagara Khán Kharakpur Khori king land latter Lepcha Magadha Malik Malwa masses Mewat mica mile farther Mithila Monghyr Moral Judgment Mukhalingam Mulk Nagara Nālandā Orissa Orissa Research Society Pahar pargana Parvan passed Patna Patna Museum plates present probably Purāņa quartz Rai Bahadur Raja Rajmahal Rennell's rice river road rock Rudradaman Sanskrit Santali Shah shistose side Sikhara Singh Siva Sonpur stone strata Sultan tank temple Thanah thence torrent tribe Vayu village white quartz worship प०