...often attains a thickness of many thousand feet, and extends from the Alps to the Carpathians, and is in full force in the north of Africa, as, for example,...Egypt — where it was largely quarried of old for the building of the pyramids — into Asia Minor, and across Persia, by Bagdad, to the mouth of the...

...the earth's crust, whether in Europe, Asia, or North Africa. It occurs in Algeria and Morocco, and has been traced from Egypt, where it was largely quarried of old for the building of the pyramids, into Asia Minor, and across Persia by Bagdad to the months of the Indus....

...and spreading over a large part of the globe of which the geology is best known. They are met with hi full force in the north of Africa, as for example in Algeria and Morocco ; they have been traced from Egypt into Asia Minor, and across Persia by Bagdad to the banks of the...

...often attains a thickness of manv thousand feet, and extends from the Alps to the Carpathians, and is in full force In the north of Africa— as, for example,...Morocco. It has been traced from Egypt, where it was larscly quarried of old for the building of the Pyramids, into Asia Minor, and across Persia, by Bagdad,...

...above the sea. It occurs also in the Pyrenees, and extends from the Alps to the Carpathians, and is in full force in the North of Africa, as, for example, in Algeria and Morocco. In Egypt, the quarries in this rock near Cairo furnished the Pharoahs with building-stone for the Pyramids.1...