ftone

But as you pro - ceed from Mcgarae, you will fee on the right hand a fountain, and a little beyond this a ftone, which they call the ftone of A£lson: for they fay that A£baeon ufcd to

The Description of Greece 1794

It afFordeth a fort of black, hard turf, which we call ftone turf, and is a more lafting fort of fire, but not fo pleafant or fwect.

Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis 1786

The houfes are buUt of ftone, which is uncommon, for in othpr places they. are compofed only of clay and wood.

The general gazetteer, or, Compendious geographical dictionary [microform] : containing a description of the empires, kingdoms, states, provinces, cities, towns, forts, seas, harbours, rivers, lakes, mountains, capes, &c. in the known world : with the government, customs, manners, and religion of the inhabitants; the extent, boundaries, and natural productions of each country, the trade, manufactures, and curiosities of the cities and towns; their longitude, latitude, bearings and distances in English miles from remarkable places; and the various events by which they have been distinguished : including an account of the counties, cities, boroughs, market-towns, and principal villages, in Great Britain and Ireland 1797

It lies on the sw fide of Weymouth Bay; and is chiefly noted for its ftone, which is ufed in London for building the fineft ftruftures.

The general gazetteer, or, Compendious geographical dictionary [microform] : containing a description of the empires, kingdoms, states, provinces, cities, towns, forts, seas, harbours, rivers, lakes, mountains, capes, &c. in the known world : with the government, customs, manners, and religion of the inhabitants; the extent, boundaries, and natural productions of each country, the trade, manufactures, and curiosities of the cities and towns; their longitude, latitude, bearings and distances in English miles from remarkable places; and the various events by which they have been distinguished : including an account of the counties, cities, boroughs, market-towns, and principal villages, in Great Britain and Ireland 1797

It is a neat thriving town; the church has a curious gotbic frontifpiece at the W. end; near it ftands one of the largeft round towers in tlie kingdom, all built with fquare ftone, which is unufual in thefe edifices.

Topographia hibernica : or The topography ofIreland, antient and modern. Giving a complete view of the civil and ecclesiastical state of that kingdom; with its antiquities, natural curiosities, trade, manufactures, extent and population Seward, William Wenman 1795

But thefe hills, tho 'barren, are not altogether ufelefs: they furnifli free ftone, which is alfo found upon the coall, as good as any in Europe.

The history of America, : from its discovery by Columbus to the conclusion of the late war. : With an appendix, containing an account of the rise and progress of the present unhappy contest between Great Britain and her colonies. 1778

The way to try lime-ftone is by drop* ping a little aqua-fortis on evety ftone, that is likely; and if it hiflcs arid froths, it will make lime;. but it will take no more effed on any other fort of ftone than water would.

A new system of husbandry 1770

According to fome mytholifrs, his punifhment is to fit, like Phlegyas, under a huge ftone which is hung at fome diftance over his head j and as it teems every moment ready to fall, he is Icep't in perpetual terrors and never - ceafing apprehenfions of being crufhed by it.

Mythology; or, A history of the fabulous deities of the ancients: designed to facilitate the study of history, poetry, painting, etc 1795

ABOUT five years ago, fome men working in a quarry of that kind of ftone which in this part of the country we call tuft ■ *, at about five or fix feet below the furfiice,, in a very Iblid part of the rock, met with feveral fragments of the horns and bones of one or different animals.

Philosophical transactions 1785

For, apprehending that by lapis arojus Pliny un - derftood a kind of ftone which caufed ulcers and erofions in the flefli of thofe who were occu - pied in working it, and knowing that arfenic produced fuch an efFcft, they have concluded that cadmia was native arfenic* This, proba - bly, is a miftake, arifing from a misinterpretation of the word, arofus.

Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester 1785