The crust which is often deposited by waters which have drained through limestone rocks, in the form of what are called stalagmites and stalactites, is carbonate of lime.

At length emerging from a narrow-throated gorge, a small house came in sight set in a thicket of fig-trees at the base of a limestone hill.

In half an hour more we reached two large tanks, hewn out under the base of a limestone cliff, and nearly filled with rain.

To that porous limestone formation water in whatever quantity is as beer to a boche.

At 1.45 entered a well-grassed plain with limestone ridges covered with bottle-tree scrub; the grass was good at this season, green but much mixed with salsola; the summits of Peak Range showed well above the ridges, and from the cliff around the tops seem to be capped with sandstone or more probably porphyry.

So, like Gyges of old, we 'elected to survive,' and rowed away with wistful eyes, determining to get Guacharosa determination which was never carried outfrom one of the limestone caverns of the northern mountains.

North, south, east and west, the trade-routes intersected, entering the city through the ornate gates in crenelated limestone walls.

Barley does uncommonly well on the light limestone soil of these hills.

and how did it get where it isnot into the mortar, I mean, but into the limestone quarry?

Shiráz stands in a plain twenty-five miles long by twelve broad, surrounded by steep and bare limestone mountains.

A cave like that of Adelsbergfor all limestone caves are, doubtless, essentially similar in characterought by all means to be seen if it comes in one's way, because it leaves impressions upon the mind unlike those derived from any other object.

11th November. Started at 7.0 a.m., steering east by south magnetic; ascended the western Wilbinga Hill at 9.0, and traversing a rough limestone country, with several reedy swamps, reached Lake Nowergup at 2.50 p.m., and at 4.0 halted on the western side of the Wanaginup Swamp.

Templeton and I were lounging by the clear limestone stream which crossed his park and wound away round wooded hills toward the distant Severn.

The limestone tree.

How white are the limestone roads!

Before I quitted Kentucky, I made a point of visiting the celebrated and immense nitre caverns or catacombs of the limestone region.

It delights in shaded ravines and dripping hillsides in limestone districts.

It is protected by double ramparts and ditches, the former consisting of piled limestone fragments, now almost entirely covered with turf.

Starting at 8.5, and having ascended the high land, passed through a thick line of wattles and dwarf gum, growing on the eastern face of the limestone range, which forms the high barren range along this part of the coast.

All across that wide limestone plain, which covers the centre of Ireland, innumerable family groups were to be seen slowly streaming west.

The ducks were talking in the reeds, the reeds themselves were talking, and the water lapping softly about the smooth limestone shingle.

There, between the Keuper above and the Bunter below, lies a great series of limestone beds, which, from the abundance of fossils which they contain, go by the name of Muschelkalk.

About a mile northeast of Sacsahuaman are several small artificial hills, partly covered with vegetation, which seem to be composed entirely of gray-blue rock chipschips from the great limestone blocks quarried here for the "fortress" and later conveyed with the utmost pains down to Sacsahuaman.

Marble, sea-shells, the chalk-cliffs of Dover, the limestone fossils which preserve for us animal forms of species long since extinct, the coral formations that are stretching out in dangerous reefs in so many seas of the tropics, are all identical in their chief ingredient, and, as we see, are by natural processes and various accidents constantly interchanging their positions.

Hard water is usually water which has invisible lime in it; there are from ten to fifteen grains and more of lime in every gallon of limestone water.