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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. In the eastern side of the Dead Sea rose the citadel of Machaerus. It was built upon a conical peak of basalt, and was surrounded by four deep valleys, one on each side, another in front, and the fourth in the rear. At the base of the citadel, crowding against one another, a group of houses stood within the circle of a wall, w...

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...ead Sea rose the citadel of Machaerus. It was built upon a conical peak of basalt, and was surrounded by four deep valleys, one on each side, another ...

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...mitment to the future . . . ." Yolbas began to bang his tail against the basalt floor. "Oh yes," said Ao Jun abruptly -- Yolbas' massive tail coul... ..., soon, I'll explain soon." They backed out into the antechamber of the basalt cavern. Their talons clicked against the cold stone. Ao Rue gestu... ...ly began to leap from pinion to pinion. Defying the end-all black of the basalt, the pulsing light of his eyes colored and broke the darkness. The... ...d marveled at his friend's unsuspected power. Slowly, unbelievably, the basalt started to flow; it was streaked with silver within Ao Rue's orb. ... ...f the orb. It cracked and snapped in the cavern's dry air. The spinning basalt began to close the cave. Feng-po retreated into the water and stil... ...-t'u and Yülü were and are so important. Since neither the water nor the basalt was enough, they had to guard the gates and the spells. Their obli... ...We need to finish here. I need you to write something for Kuan-ti in the basalt seal." "How am I supposed to do that? You might as well ask me to... ...ed it was there. "Now all you have to do is cut what I tell you into the basalt." "Err, Ao Rue, haven't you forgotten something?" "What?" "I c... ...hardly anything. Painstakingly, Ao Rue drew four lines of runes into the basalt cap. "What does it say?" Feng-po asked as he gratefully untwined h...

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... million, $320 per capita (1983) 44 Cayman Islands Natural resources: salt, basalt rock, pozzo- lana, limestone, kaolin Agriculture: main crops banan...

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... ture, and, picking up a piece of chalk-stone, advanced to a rock of black basalt, and traced the one word: ATLANTIS WHAT A LIGHT shot through my mind... ...nd it became more stony, and seemed strewn with conglomerate and pieces of basalt, with a sprinkling of lava. I thought that a mountainous region was ... ...glomerate and tra- 198 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea chyte succeeded black basalt, the first dispread in layers full of bubbles, the latter forming re... ...ault, an admirable specimen of natural architecture. Between the blocks of basalt wound long streams of lava, long since grown cold, encrusted with bi... ... of the same volcanic nature; everywhere were traces of lava, scoriae, and basalt; but the crater which had vomited them I could not see. Here, as low... ...at had run aground, bringing the Captain. I saw him standing on a block of basalt, his instruments near him, his eyes fixed on the northern horizon, n... ...hours getting to the summit of this peak, which was half porphyry and half basalt. From thence we looked upon a vast sea which, towards the north, dis...

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...land; there, rocks of the trappean and volcanic class, including trachyte, basalt, and tuffs and agglomerates associated with streams of lava, have ma... ...olcano. It extends along the inner edge of a small fiord, inclosed between basaltic walls of the strangest construction. Basalt is a brownish rock of ... ...d Fingal’s Cave in Staffa, one of the Hebrides; but I had never yet seen a basaltic formation. At Stapi I beheld this phenomenon in all its beauty. Th... ...es, into which the waves came dashing with foam and spray. A few shafts of basalt, torn from their hold by the fury of tempests, lay along the soil li... ...ouse, the Professor took a straight road, which, through an opening in the basaltic wall, led away from the sea. We were soon in the open country, if ... ...ast. There was therefore no room for conversation. After we had passed the basaltic wall of the fiord of Stapi we passed over a vegetable fibrous peat... ...runcated cones, formerly so many fiery mouths. After the exhaustion of the basalt, the volcano, the power of which grew by the extinction of the lesse...

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...istened in the roll of Gottlieb’s possessions; corn-acres be- low Cologne; basalt-quarries about Linz; mineral-springs in Nassau, a legacy of the Roma...

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...no answer, save the incessant angry murmur of the Nile as it raced round a basalt-walled bend and foamed across a rock-ridge half a mile up- stream. I...

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...nd, passing Pauwell, they entered the defiles of the mountains, with their basalt bases, and their summits crowned with thick and verdant forests. Phi...

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...rth all we have under- gone. The crags are wonderful, chalk at the bottom, basalt above, and of course all round to the Giant’s Causeway it is finer s...

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...ow of sunlight upon the snowy flank of Higuerota. Pillared masses of black basalt framed like an open portal a portion of the white field lying aslant... ...ing the top of the pass like the floor of a vast arena sur- rounded by the basalt walls of precipices, two stroll- ing figures in thick ulsters stood ... ... of the village. At the other end of the rocky gorge, between the walls of basalt and granite, a forest-clad mountain, hiding all the range from the S...

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...the Court House rising from the pavement like a rain-washed cliff of black basalt, picked out with winking lights, and beyond that, at the extreme end...

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... goddesses sheathed in marble folds by Egyptian sculptors. It was granite, basalt, porphyry, with life and movement. Saved from want for the rest of h...

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...eim, by a good train, is the ancient city of M——, upon a great pinnacle of basalt, girt with a triple road running sideways up its shoulder like a sca... ...green meadows that run away on each side to the dark purple fir-woods; the basalt pinnacles; the immense forests. And 28 The Good Soldier there is me...

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... It rests on an- cient volcanic rocks, and has been covered by a stream of basalt, which must have entered the sea when the white shelly bed was lying... ...SLANDS Santa Cruz — Expedition up the River — Indians — Immense Streams of Basaltic Lava — Fragments not transported by the River — Excavations of the... ...ast days had noticed the presence of a few smal pebbles of a very cellular basalt. These gradually increase in number and in size, but none were as la... ...r we saw, at the distance of five o six miles, the angular edge of a great basaltic platform When we arrived at its base we found the stream bubblin a... ... For the next twenty-eight mile the river-course was encumbered with these basaltic masses Above that limit immense fragments of primitive rocks deriv... ...efficiency of rivers i transporting even moderately-sized frag- ments. The basalt is only lava, which has flowed beneath the sea but the eruptions mus... ...bed of the sea to distance of one hundred miles. At the first glance of th basaltic cliffs on the opposite sides of the valley, it wa evident that the... ...c oceans, like that of Magellan But it may yet be asked, how has the solid basalt bee moved? Geologists for- 201 Charles Darwin merly would have brou... ... must have required t have corroded so vast an area and thickness of solid basalti lava. Nevertheless, we must believe that the strata undermined by t...

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... the breakers, they fought in the sand, and they fought on the smooth-worn basalt rocks of the nurseries, for they were just as stupid and unaccommoda...

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...d. And then we climbed the stair to a high door; A hundred horsemen on the basalt floor Beneath had paced content: we held our way And stood within: cl...