| Edward Augustus Kendall - 1811 - 482 pages
...though only of a middle degree of hardness between the sapphire and the common crystal. It is found of various sizes, from that of a pin's head, to an inch in diameter. GARTER, order of the, a military order of knighthood, said to have been first instituted by Richard... | |
| Edward Augustus Kendall - 1811 - 474 pages
...though only of a middle degree of hardness between the sapphire and the common crystal. It is found of various sizes, from that of a pin's head, to an inch in diameter. GARTER, order of the, a military order of knighthood, said to have been first instituted by Richard... | |
| C. H. Kauffman - 1815 - 460 pages
...though only of a middling degree of hardness, between the sapphire and common crystal. It is found of various sizes, from that of a pin's head to an inch in diameter. The most esteemed is the Syrian garnet, which is of a fine red, inclining to purple, very transparent,... | |
| John Lauris Blake - 1834 - 1028 pages
...though only of a middle degree of hardness between the sapphire and the common crystal. It ie found of various sizes, from that of a pin's head, to an inch in diameter. GARRISON. A body of men stationed in a fortress, city, village, intrenchrnent, &c., for the sake of... | |
| Geological Survey of Canada - 1857 - 520 pages
...unequally distributed, some parts of the veins being nearly destitute of them, while in other parts they are very abundant, and of various sizes, from...head to an inch in diameter. On the walls of some of these cells or druses small transparent crystals of quartz are implanted, and in some there are the... | |
| Geological Survey of Canada - 1857 - 520 pages
...unequally distributed, some parts of the veins being nearly destitute of them, while in other parts they are very abundant, and of various sizes, from...head to an inch in diameter. On the walls of some of these cells or druses small transparent crystals of quartz are implanted, and in some there are the... | |
| Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1875 - 650 pages
...ruby, though only of a middle degree of hardness between the sapphire and common crystal. It is found of various sizes, from that of a pin's head to an inch in diameter. Among lapidaries and jewellers genuine garnets areltnown by different names, according to their different... | |
| Geological Survey of Canada - 1876 - 166 pages
...Chatham, and Wentworth. The veins consist of yellowish-brown or flesh-red cellular chert ; the colours, in some cases, running in bands parallel to one another...from that of a pin's head to an inch In diameter. The attitude and associations of the chert •clearly show that it cannot be of sedimentary origin,... | |
| Geological Survey of Canada - 1893 - 878 pages
...one another and sometimes being rather confusedly mingled, giving the aspect of a breccia. The colls are unequally distributed, some parts being nearly...from that of a pin's head to an inch in diameter." This deposit for other than the purpose of obtaining specimens has not yet been opened, nor have any... | |
| Geological Survey of Canada - 1893 - 898 pages
...one another and sometimes being rather confusedly mingled, giving the aspect of a breccia. The colls are unequally distributed, some parts being nearly...from that of a pin's head to an inch in diameter." This deposit for other than the purpose of obtaining specimens has not yet been opened, nor have any... | |
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