| Sir John Sinclair - 1795 - 664 Seiten
...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 be about 51,0.75... | |
| Robert Forsyth - 1805 - 668 Seiten
...flat-topped eminence, in the parish of Kirkmichael, surrounded, at some distance, by steep rocky hills. This stone is placed on the plain surface of a rock,...figure of a rhombus, of which the greater diagonal is seven feet, and the lesser five. Its medium thickness is about two feet and a half. Its solid contents... | |
| J. Taylor - 1822 - 220 Seiten
...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...figure of a rhombus, of which the greater diagonal is seven feet, and the lesser five. Its medium thickness is about two feet and a half ; its solid contents... | |
| 1824 - 458 Seiten
...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....figure of a rhombus, of which the greater diagonal is seven feet, and the 'lesser five. Its medium thickness is about two feet and a half; its solid contents... | |
| 1825 - 266 Seiten
...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....figure of a rhombus, of which the greater diagonal is seven feet and the lesser five. Its medium thickness is about two feet and a-half; its solid contents... | |
| Scotch haggis - 1829 - 436 Seiten
...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...figure of a rhombus, of which the greater diagonal is seven feet, and the lesser five. Its medium thickness is about two feet and a half; its solid contents... | |
| 1834 - 440 Seiten
...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...figure of a rhombus, of which the greater diagonal is seven feet, and the lesser five. Its medium thickness is about two feet, and a half; its solid contents... | |
| 1834 - 438 Seiten
...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 rhombus, of which the greater diagonal is seven feet, and the lesser five. Its medium thickness is about two feet and a half; its solid contents... | |
| 1843 - 402 Seiten
...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... | |
| Thomas Hay Marshall, Henry Adamson - 1849 - 574 Seiten
...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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