"In the kaaba at mecca, there is a celebrated block of volcanic basalt, which the mohammedans venerate as the gift of gabriel to abraham, but their ancestors once held it to be an image of remphan, or saturn; so 'the image which fell down from jupiter,' to share with diana the homage of the ephesians, was probably nothing more than a meteoric stone.

This is compact, sonorous basalt, apparently unchanged; and that could not have supplied the silica without complete decomposition.

Many fragments of red, gray, and purple basalt and porphyry were met with along the beach; talcose rock and slate, syenite, hornblend, quartz, both compact and slaty, with chalcedony, were found in pieces and large pebbles.

It is built of reddish basalt from the quarries of Huaccoto, near the twin peaks of Mt. Picol.

The feet of all were cut and bleeding, in spite of rags torn from their tattered uniforms and bound on with strips of cloth; for everywhere through the sand projected ridges of vertical, sharp stonethe black basalt named by the Arabs Hajar Jehannum, or "Rock of Hell."

They seem to melt and to escape inspection, yet they remain fixed on the memory as firmly as forms in carven basalt.

This is compact, sonorous basalt, apparently unchanged; and that could not have supplied the silica without complete decomposition.

The feet of all were cut and bleeding, in spite of rags torn from their tattered uniforms and bound on with strips of cloth; for everywhere through the sand projected ridges of vertical, sharp stonethe black basalt named by the Arabs Hajar Jehannum, or "Rock of Hell."

This is compact, sonorous basalt, apparently unchanged; and that could not have supplied the silica without complete decomposition.

The feet of all were cut and bleeding, in spite of rags torn from their tattered uniforms and bound on with strips of cloth; for everywhere through the sand projected ridges of vertical, sharp stonethe black basalt named by the Arabs Hajar Jehannum, or "Rock of Hell."

The ditches have both been cut through the solid basalt, and great boulders of it are strewn around; one huge mass, weighing many tons, has been hoisted outby what means, we are left to wonder; and another, still in the ditch, has the holes, intended for the wedges still discernible.