10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STALACTITIOUS»
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1
A tour through the islands of Orkney and Schetland, with an ...
Passed from this, to the head, which is much hollowed into caves, some of which
abound with Stalactitious matter which has incrusted their sides and hang from
their roofs in long pieces like icicles, but nothing more remarkable than in places
...
George Low, Joseph Anderson, 1879
Effused, fiaxy-waxy, hardening, incrusting, tuberculose or stalactitious, whitish
with a similar border. Hymenium collapsing, flocculose-pruinose. Incrusting
various substances. Variable in form, white, the border not fringed or pcncillatc.
Chicago Academy of Sciences. Natural History Survey, 1909
3
Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History
J. Brocklesby with reference to the frozen well at Owego, N. Y., and other cold
wells at different places. Dr. White presented, in the name of Dr. Durkee, the
upper portion of a human ulna, incrusted with a stalactitious deposit of carbonate
of lime ...
4
Brookes's Universal Gazetteer: Re-modelled and Brought Down ...
It contains many stalactitious concretions, and several curious representations
both of art and nature, produced by the petrifying water continually dropping from
the rock. Buxton is 32 m. N. W. of Derby, and 160 N. N. W. of London. Resident ...
Richard Brookes, John Marshall, 1843
5
A New Historical and Descriptive View of Derbyshire: From ...
Here are some remarkable caverns; one of which is called Bossen Hole; but the
chief is Bangforth Hole in Charleswork, of great extent, and beautifully
ornamented with stalactitious petrifactions. On the north side of Stoney Middleton
is St.
6
The Methodist Review ...
I have seen this calcareous rock,” he says, “impregnated with bitumen in an
extent of more than three leagues diameter. It is even so abundant in some parts
that it distills through the clefts of the rocks and forms stalactitious bitumen.” I
have a ...
7
The general gazetteer: or, Compendious geographical ...
The entrance is low and narrow, but it presently opens to a cave of considerable
height, and 696 feet long, with a roof resembling a Gothic cathedral. It contains
many stalactitious concretions, and several curious representations, both of art ...
Richard Brookes, James Alexander Smith, 1869
8
The Spas of England and Principal Sea-bathing Places
This, which was once the natural bank of the river, exhibits yet, below the surface,
and down to the water's edge, the stalactitious and stalagmitic concretions left by
the tepid spring. It is evident from this feature, that the mineral water must have ...
9
The Higher Fungi of the Chicago Region ...: The ...
Effused, flaxy-waxy, hardening, incrusting, tuberculose or stalactitious, whitish
with a similar border. Hymenium collapsing, flocculosc-pruinose. Incrusting
various substances. Variable in form, white, the border not fringed or pencillate.
14. T. seracea, Pers. Effused, fleshy-waxy, hardening, incrusting, tuberculose or
stalactitious, whitish, wiih a similar border. Hymenium collapsing, flocculose-
pruinose. Incrusting various substances; common. Various in form, white, the
border ...
Cincinnati Society of Natural History, 1888
