...from actual specimens. Their shape, as will be seen, is by no means their most striking peculiarity. Each is smoothed, polished, and covered with striae...some of which are delicate as the lines traced by an etching needle, others deep and harsh as the scores made by the plough upon a rock. And what is also...

...is by no means their most striking peculiarity. Each is smoothed, polished, and covered with strise or scratches, some of which are delicate as the lines traced by an etching needle, others deep and harsh as the scores made by the plough upon a rock. And what is also...

...corners and edges have been invariably smoothed away. Each is smoothed, polished, and covered with stris, or scratches, some of which are delicate as the lines...worthy of note, most of the scratches, coarse and tine together, seem to run parallel to the longer diameter of the stones; which, however, are scratched...

...smoothed away. . . . Their shape, as will be seen, is by no means their most striking peculiarity. Each is smoothed, polished, and covered with striae...etching-needle, others deep and harsh as the scores made by the plow upon a rock. And, what is worthy of note, most of the scratches, coarse and fine together,...

...are indeed angular in shape, bub the sharp corners and edges have invariably been smoothed away. Bach is smoothed, polished and covered with striae or scratches,...some of which are delicate as the lines traced by an etching needle, others deep and harsh as the scores made by the plow upon a rock. But what is also...

...corners and edges have invariably been smoothed away. Each is smoothed, polished and covered with stria; or scratches, some of which are delicate as the lines traced by an etching needle, others deep and harsh as the scores made by the plow upon a rock. But what is also...