 | 1876 - 592 pages
...abstinence from food, mutilation of the body, drawing of blood, and passing sticks, varying in thickness from half an inch to an inch and a half in diameter, through a hole cut in the tongue. They even discriminated their penances to such an extent as to punish... | |
 | John Britton, John Hodgson - 1812 - 1036 pages
...great numbers ; which are conical stones of various sizes, from two to five or six inches long, and from half an inch to an inch and a half in diameter, at the base; and are found sticking in pieces of the rock, in a confused manner, and in different directions.*... | |
 | John Bigland - 1815 - 1038 pages
...great numbers ; which are conical stones of various sizes, from two to five or six inches long, and from half an inch to an inch and a half in diameter, at the base ; and are found sticking in pieces of the rock, in a confused manner, and in different... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - 1828 - 442 pages
...had been built in from year to year, and found them constructed as follows: externally large sticks, from half an inch to an inch and a half in diameter,...feet, and from two to three feet in breadth; these were intermixed with corn-stalks, sea-weed, pieces of wet turf in large quantities, mullein-stalks,... | |
 | William Buckland - 1824 - 378 pages
...its external form is that of a sphere, irregularly compressed, as in the faeces of sheep, and varying from half an inch to an inch and a half in diameter; its colour is yellowish white, its fracture is usually earthy and compact, resembling steatite, and... | |
 | William Eastmead - 1824 - 536 pages
...its external form is that of a sphere irregularly compressed, a» in the faces of Sheep, and varying from half an inch to an inch and a half in diameter ; its colour is yellowishwhite; according to the account of Mr. Buck land it was identified by tbe... | |
 | Thomas Allen - 1828 - 384 pages
...great numbers; which are conical stones of various sizes, from two to five or six inches long, and from half an inch to an inch and a half in diameter, at the base ; cHAP.IU. and are found sticking in pieces of the rock, in a confused manner, and in different... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - 1831 - 426 pages
...been built in from year to year, and found them constructed as follows :—Externally, large sticks, from half an inch to an inch and a half in diameter,...feet, and from two to three feet in breadth; these were intermixed with corn stalks, sea-weed, pieces of wet turf, in large quantities, mullein stalks,... | |
 | Berwickshire Naturalists' Club (Scotland) - 1890 - 678 pages
...oval, or roundish sori, scattered at wide intervals over the blade. These sori, which, are usually from half an inch to an inch and a half in diameter, seldom become confluent, and never, so far as I have observed, spread into large irregular patches... | |
 | Alexander Wilson - 1832 - 472 pages
...been built in from year to year, and found them constructed as follows : — Externally, large sticks, from half an inch to an inch and a half in diameter,...feet, and from two to three feet in breadth; these were intermixed with corn stalks, seaweed, pieces of wet turf, in large quantities, mullein stalks,... | |
| |
... from half an inch to an inch and a half in diameter, and two or three feet in length... 
