I found on the top a great quantity of reddish limestone with shells, an evident proof that this part of the country was formerly covered by the sea.
Not far from this statue, there is a small fountain, the water of which, though very thirsty, I did not venture to drink, having some days since experienced bad consequences from drinking water from limestone rocks.
The houses are built of blue limestone which comes from the state of Vermont.
The streets in Bethlehem are not paved, but planted with poplars, and provided with broad brick side-walks; the houses are built either of blue limestone or of brick.
Afterwards came another vale, formed by Scrub Hill and Scollop Hill; then a long mountain, called Limestone Ridge.
High Rock Spring flows from a white conical limestone rock, five feet high, in which there is a round aperture above, about nine inches in diameter, through which the water in the spring is seen in a state of constant agitation.
The Shenandoah here is but a small brook; opposite the town is a limestone rock, having many cavities.
At the inn of Shoreham is a place for loading and unloading vessels, which transport much plaster of Paris and blue limestone for building, to Canada.
The yellow stream which comes from the basin, runs a short distance over a bed of limestone and is afterwards precipitated into the valley.
The spring originates in a limestone rock, the water has a little taste of iron, and deposits a great quantity of ochre, from which it takes its name.
The rock which contains these interesting traces, is a compact limestone of a bluish-gray colour.
These limestone rocks form very singular figures on the edge of this valley; the detached pieces resemble the Devil's Wall of the Hartz.
In the vicinity of the Lehigh, there are many limestone rocks; these they explode, partly for the purpose of having heavy stones, which are thrown on the dams, partly for burning them to lime.
The way was through a hilly, woody country; many breaks in the earth presentedlimestone rocks, and announced the proximity of caves.
The earth was originally covered with water, as appears from some of its highest mountains, consisting of shells cemented together by a solution of part of them, as the limestone rocks of the Alps; Ferber's Travels.
I observed great masses of the limestone in Shropshire, which is brought to Newport, to consist of the cells of these animals.
Ranunculaceae), a poisonous herb with long-stalked compound leaves, small white flowers and black berries, found wild in copses in limestone districts in the north of England.
The lower reaches of the Zhob and Kundar are hemmed in by rugged limestone walls, serrated and banded with deep clefts and gorges, a wilderness of stony desolation.
From the latitude of Bagdad northward the region between the two rivers is an arid, waterless, limestone steppe, inhabited only by roving Arabs.
The mainlimestone has been worked at Fordyce, near Grange east of Keith, and at Keith and Dufftown.
North Wales; it is regarded as the equivalent of the Coniston limestone of the Lake District.
Triassic beds lie along the south side of the upper Zhob, and Fusulina limestone has also been found there.
The strata consist mainly of conglomerates and red sandstones, which, at Gamrie and at Tynet, are associated with a band of limestone nodules embedded in a clayey matrix, containing fish remains.
This is the land of the Brahui, and the flat wall of its frontier limestone barrier is one of the most remarkable features in the configuration of the whole line of Indian borderland.
The character of the country we were traversing had changed; again the ground was hard beneath our feet; angular fragments of limestone were strewn over its surface.
But the stillness of the atmosphere and the glare from the limestone surrounding the mission, made one desperate.
These stood on a limestone ridge in a crescent-shaped bend of that stark range of mountains on the northern side of which the Orange River has carved its tremendous earth-scar.
We pushed on steadily but could not travel fast, for the sand was heavy and the angular limestone fragments lay thick upon our course.
It seemed as though we should never reach the mission; the trek over red-hot sand through which angular chunks of limestone were thickly distributed, seemed interminable in the fierce heat.
They were rectangular chambers built of squared slabs of limestone set on edge.
These consist of large slabs of natural limestone set up on edge and not very closely fitted.
In Westgothland, a province of Sweden, there are fine examples with walls of limestone and often roofs of granite visible above the surface of the mound.
The chambers, which seem to follow no definite plan, are excavated in the soft limestone and arranged in two storeys connected by a staircase, part of which still remains in place.
This last is a remarkable block of limestone weighing about 70 tons.
They connect with one another below, and are closed with tightly fitting limestone plugs.
They made out eight shafts in the face of a layer of limestone some eighty-one feet long, and at every turn of their excavations they came to fresh shafts.
This fairy grotto includes an open-air gallery cut in the mountain limestone and roofed in with huge flat stones.
It was not until later, driven to do so by the cold, that man learnt to use the natural caves hollowed out in limestone rocks, either in geological convulsions or by the quieter action of water.
It is characteristic of crystalline limestone or dolomite and serpentine.
The great building was erected, in a taste eminently characteristic of the Middle Kingdom, of great blocks of fine limestone and crystalline quartzite.
The object in question is a limestone sarcophagus covered with plaster, on which various funerary ceremonies are painted.
It consists of a paved court, ending, on the west side, in a flight of ten steps, more than 60 feet in length, behind which stands a wall of large limestone blocks.
It went on daily, and parties of red-coated soldiery were to be seen contentedly hammering away at the limestone rock, satisfied with a few pence extra pay.
Here for a considerable distance the road was terraced out in the hill-side, formed of hard carboniferous limestone rock, and a clear metalled roadway was obtained from twenty to twenty-five feet wide throughout.
It wound through the limestone for a short distance, then opened into a small cave filled with wonderful white rock formations.
Darkness would mean feeling his way through the limestone tangle, and he realized fully that he would not get far before death claimed him in the form of a yawning canyon in the limestone rock.
Further back, against the limestone wall, he could see tents or lean-tos made of some kind of cloth.
He had visited some of the limestone caverns of Virginia, and he had read of the New York and Kentucky caverns.
Presently he found a place where a limestone pillar made a comfortable back rest and sat down.
He wound in and out through the limestone formations, leaving a trail of broken cracker crumbs.
He found a natural seat next to a twisted pillar of limestone and sat down.
I'm taking the samples home for further analysis, along with some samples oflimestone from the caves.
By contrast with the total darkness, the reflection of the beam on the limestone walls was brilliant sunlight.
The biggest drop flew between two limestone hour-glasses that formed one passage.
From ceiling and floor limestone icicles strained toward each other.
The corridors formed by the limestone pillars led in all directions.
They were the stalactites and stalagmites Zircon had mentioned, formed over the centuries by slow drops of water, each of which left its tiny trace of limestone to help build up the formation.
The infrared light was directed toward a jutting edge of limestone on the shore he had just left.
This craggy ridge seems to be the commencement of that wonderful range of limestonecalled the Eglwyseg Rocks.
In the bank of limestone rock below the bridge, and on the side of the river, is a cavern or subterraneous passage, of unknown extent, and which I have not had opportunity to explore.
Opposite the north side of the same house, a few years ago, as some labourers were working in the limestone rock, they discovered a pot, filled with gold coin.
Naturally, first come first served--so the settlers who arrived first on the scene chose for themselves the more accessible and fertile lands, the valleys and rich limestone belts at the foot of the Blue Ridge and the Alleghenies.
Limestone Trail in Mason County has left along its course only a vestige of vegetation to remind us it was once the path of buffalo and Indian.
It was the fertile valleys with their rich limestone soil producing abundant cane that first proved irresistible to the immigrants of Europe and lured them farther inland from the Atlantic seaboard.
Another trail was called Old Buffalo Path, another Limestone because of the soil.
I may add, that in the bed of the Glindon Brook, which flows from the left bank of the Hunter, rocks of argillaceous limestone are found in large round boulders, some of which are more than 15 feet in diameter.
The sun had sunk to rest behind the pyramids, the Necropolis, and the Libyan hills; the eastern sky, and the barelimestone rock of Babylon on the opposite shore were shining with hues of indescribable diversity and beauty.
The chalk first, for it furnished man with flints, and the limestone next when he had learned to barter.
The limestone cliffs of Palestine are riddled with them.
Not till the chalk and the limestone shelters were stocked, and could hold no more, would men be driven to invent for themselves other dwellings.
Martel writes: "In a superb cliff of dolomiticlimestone of the cirque of the Beaumes Chauds, M.
Here the precipice of fawn-coloured limestone overhangs like a wave, curling and about to break.
The cave is in the range of cretaceous limestone that runs east and west to the north-east of Marseilles, and at La Beaume Sainte reaches the height of 3450 feet.
Thence the wretched peasants fled to the deserted limestone Causse of Quercy and occupied the abandoned villages and farms.
A huge limestone precipice rises above the Bodmenalp, that is a paradise of wild flowers.
The volcanic breccia as well as chalk and limestone has been utilised for the habitation of man.
The principal castle, that which belonged to the Bishop of Sarlat, occupies one of the profound horizontal furrows in the face of the rock, that are so common in the limestoneand chalk formations.
Below Figeac the limestone precipices first appear at Corn, and the cliff is full of caves in which there are remains of fortifications.
Only when the districts of chalk and limestone were overstocked would the overflow be constrained to look elsewhere for shelter.
The river flows here through a profound limestone gorge; but to the very edges of the gorge we have the evidences of erosion.
To the solubility of limestone is probably to be ascribed the fantastic forms which peaks of this rock usually assume, and also the grottos and caverns which interpenetrate limestone formations.
The most pleasant of these was to the Hinterburger See, a small and lonely lake high up among the hills, fringed on one side by pines, and overshadowed on the other by the massive limestone buttresses of the Hinterburg.
These deep gorges occur, I believe, for the most part in limestone strata; and the effects which the merest driblet of water can produce on such rocks are quite astonishing.
It will be remembered that the Schlucht or gorge is cut through a great barrier of limestone rock called the Kirchet, which throws itself across the valley of Hasli, about three-quarters of an hour's walk above Meyringen.
The most striking illustration of water-action upon limestone rock which I have ever witnessed is, I think, furnished by the gorge at Pfaeffers.
Even the exposure of chalk or limestone water to the open air partially softens it.
The roads of Kentucky, those long limestoneturnpikes connecting the towns and villages with the farms--they were early made necessary by the hauling of the hemp.
Nearly all that interminable day, the mechanism of the stage and the condition of the pike (much fresh-cracked limestone on it) administered to Gabriella's body such a massage as is not now known to medical science.
The rapids, formed by a dike of limestonestretching across the river, extend about two miles.
He collected about four hundred Indian warriors at Sandusky, in the summer of 1777, and marched toward Limestone (now Maysville), on the Kentucky frontier.
A French cheese made from the milk of ewes, cured in a cavern in the limestone rock at Roquefort, France.
In the north of the peninsula is the desert Paran, a desolate limestone plateau, bounded on the south by a tract of low sandstone mountains, ravines, and valleys rich in minerals which had been worked as early as 3000 B.
The northern one of these, Assyria, is a great plain of limestone and selenite, in area almost equal to England.
The exterior forms a series of steps, which were originally filled with blocks of limestone accurately cut to form a smooth slope.
The church is of white limestoneand has a lofty marble spire.
The densely wooded northeast is broken by many low islands of limestone and glacial débris.
All these wonderful natural halls, chasms and snowy incrustations were formed by the age-long action of the water on the limestone rocks through which it filtered.
It consists of three steel spans (center five hundred and twenty feet, others five hundred and two feet each) resting on massive limestone piers.
The limestone Cotswold Hills between these and the Welsh Highlands rise somewhat higher.
The spot which they had chosen for their resting-place was at the foot of the great scarp of limestone upon which stands the city of Bethlehem, two thousand five hundred feet above the sea.
In small pickets they climbed the steep hill-sides, penetrated through the groves of olive, fig and pomegranate trees which clothe the successive tiers of limestone terraces, and reached the high plateau above.
Such "sink-holes" can be found only in limestone formations.
It was a scene the like of which can be found in many another limestone formation the world over.
This is also partly true of the zeolites and granular limestone species with included minerals.
Our last district--West Cork and Kerry--was characterised by great ribs of slate and sandstone, and by an absence of limestone and the numerous plants which follow in its train.
The old square keep, ivy-crowned, rises from a huge limestone rock, around which the Coomaun or crooked river winds.
Thickly surrounded by beautiful lime trees, the warm red sandstones of the walling, with the limestone dressing of the windows and doorways, forms a brilliant picture.
The limestones and dolomites of the upper cretaceous age are also found in various localities mixed with tertiary limestone and sandstone as well as conglomerates, dolomites, and limestones of the lower cretaceous age.
The latter formation is found in other sections with precarboniferous limestone and also with crystalline limestone of the azoic age.
The tertiary formation and particularly limestone covers the entire Department of Peten.
