 | Sir John Sinclair - Scotland - 1795 - 664 pages
...doubtful cafes, f This (lone is placed on the plain furfacc cf a rock level with the ground. Its fhape is quadrangular approaching to the figure of a rhombus, of which the greater diagonal is 7 feet, and the IciTcr 5 feet. Its mean thicknefs is about 2* feet. Its folid contents will therefore... | |
 | J. Taylor - Curiosities and wonders - 1822 - 220 pages
...on a flat-topped eminence, surrounded at some distance by steep rocky hills. It rests on the plane surface of a rock, level with the ground. Its shape...half ; its solid contents will, therefore, be about 51,075 cubical feet. As it is of very hard and solid whinstone, its weight, reckoning the cubical foot... | |
 | Curiosities and wonders - 1824 - 458 pages
...description: It stands on a flat topped eminence, surrounded at some distance by steep rocky hills. It rests on the plain surface of a rock, level with the ground....half; its solid contents will, therefore, be about fifty-one cubical feet. As it is of very hard and solid whinstone, its weight, reckoning the cubical... | |
 | Curiosities and wonders - 1825 - 266 pages
...description. It stands on a flattopped eminence, surrounded at some distance by steep rocky hills. It rests on the plain surface of a rock, level with the ground....lesser five. Its medium thickness is about two feet and a-half; its solid contents will, therefore be about 51,075 cubical feet. As it is of very hard and... | |
 | Scotch haggis - 1829 - 436 pages
...stands on a flat topped eminence, surrounded at some distance by steep rocky hills. It rests on tha plain surface of a rock, level with the ground. Its...half; its solid contents will, therefore, be about fifty-one cubical feet. As it is of very hard and solid whiustone, its weight, reckoning the cubical... | |
 | 1834 - 440 pages
...It stands on a flat topped eminence, surrounded at some distance by steep rocky hills. It rests on a plain surface of a rock, level with the ground. Its...a half; its solid contents will therefore be about fifty-one cubical feet. As it is of very hard and solid whinstone, its weight, reckoning the cubical... | |
 | 1834 - 438 pages
...distance by steep rocky hills. It rests on the plain surface of a rock, level with the ground. Ils shape is quadrangular, approaching to the figure of...a half; its solid contents will therefore be about fifty-one cubical feel. As it is of very hard and solid vvhinstone, its weight, reckoning the cubical... | |
 | Children's periodicals - 1843 - 402 pages
...stone. It stands on a flat-topped eminence, surrounded at some distance by steep rocky hills. It rests on the plain surface of a rock, level with the ground. Its shape is nearly square, and its weight is reckoned at three tons. It touches the rock on which it rests only... | |
 | Scotland - 1845 - 1334 pages
...which the Druids are said to have employed as a kind of ordeal for detecting guilt in doubtful cases. This stone is placed on the plain surface of a rock...figure of a rhombus, of which the greater diagonal is 7 feet, and the lesser 5 feet. Its mean thickness is about 2£ feet. Its solid contents are therefore... | |
 | Thomas Hay Marshall, Henry Adamson - Perth (Scotland) - 1849 - 574 pages
...rocking-stone, which stands on a flat topped-eminence, in the vicinity of a large body of Druid remains. This stone is placed on the plain surface of a rock, level with the ground. It is a very hard solid whinstone, of a quadrangular shape, approaching to the figure of a rhombus,... | |
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In the parish of Kirkmichael, in Scotland, there is a very remarkable stone of this description: It stands on a flat topped eminence, surrounded at some distance by steep rocky hills. It rests on the plain surface of a rock, level with the ground. Its... 
