 On a minute examination, each pillar is found to be separable into joints, whose articulation is neat and compact beyond expression ; the convex termination of one joint always meeting a concave socket in the next...  The geography of the British Isles - Page 179by Mary Martha Rodwell - 1834Full view - About this book
 | Curiosities and wonders - 1786 - 510 pages
...honeycomb. The pillars are irregular prifms, of various de- • nominations, from four to eight fides * ; but the hexagonal columns are as numerous as all the others together. ' On a minute infpcction, each pillar is found to be feparable into feveral joints, whofe articulation is neat and... | |
 | 1787 - 724 pages
...folid h meycomb. The pillars are irregular prilms, of various denominations, from four to eight lides ; but the hexagonal columns are as numerous as all the others together. " On a minute infpetfion, each pillar is found to be leparahle into lèverai joints, whofe articulation is neat and... | |
 | William Hamilton - Antrim (Northern Ireland : County) - 1790 - 364 pages
...honeycomb. The pillars are irregular prifms, of various denominations, from three to eight fides*; but the hexagonal columns are as numerous as all the others together. ON a minute infpection, each pillar is found to be feparable into feveral joints, whofe articulation is neat and... | |
 | Joseph Robertson (of Edinburgh.) - 1806 - 362 pages
...other, exhibiting a sort of polygon " pavement resembling the appearance of a solid honey " corab. The pillars are irregular prisms of various. " denominations^...numerous as all the others '* together. " On a minute inspection each pillar is found separ" able in several joints, whose articulation is compact " beyond... | |
 | Sir Richard Colt Hoare - Ireland - 1807 - 474 pages
...contact with each other, exhibiting a sort of polygon pavement, somewhat resembling the appearance of a solid honeycomb. The pillars are irregular prisms,...numerous as all the others together. "On a minute inspection, each pillar is found to be separable into several joints, whose articulation is neat and... | |
 | Wakefield, Edward - Ireland - 1812 - 810 pages
...in contact with each other, exhibit a sort of polygonal pavement somewhat similar in appearance to a solid honey-comb. The pillars are irregular prisms...columns are as numerous as all the others together. + On minute inspection each pillar is found to be separable into several joints, the articulation of which... | |
 | John Dubourdieu - Agriculture - 1812 - 876 pages
...contact with each other, exhibiting a sort of polygon pavement, somewhat resembling the appearance of a solid honeycomb. The pillars are irregular prisms, of various denominations, from three to five sides, but the hexagonal are as numerous us all the others taken together. On a minute inspection,... | |
 | Stephen Barlow - Ireland - 1814 - 552 pages
...much unlike a solid honeycomb. The pillars are irregular prisms, of various denominations, from four to eight sides * ; but the hexagonal columns are as numerous as all the others together. " Oa a minute inspection, each pillar is found to be separable into several joints, whose articulation... | |
 | Stephen Barlow - Ireland - 1814 - 556 pages
...much unlike a solid honeycomb. The pillars are irregular prisms, of various denominations, from four to eight sides * ; but the hexagonal columns are as numerous as all the others together. o . " Oil a minute inspection, each pillar is found to be separable into several joints, whose articulation... | |
 | 1817 - 646 pages
...much unlike a solid honeycomb. The pillars are irregular prisms of rarious denominations, from four to eight sides; but the hexagonal columns are as numerous as all the others together. On a minute inspection, each pillar is found to be separable into several joints, whose articulation is neat and... | |
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