 The quartz thus reduced to powder was washed on inclined tables, furnished with two cisterns, all built of fragments of stone collected there ; and near these inclined planes are generally found little white mounds, the residue of the operation.  The Archaeological Journal - Page 3121869Full view - About this book
 | John Gardner Wilkinson - 1837 - 486 pages
...either entire or broken. * Similar huts are met with at all the quarries and mines of these deserts. " The quartz thus reduced to powder was washed on inclined...little white mounds, the residue of the operation. Besides the numerous remains of houses in this station, are two large buildings, with towers at the... | |
 | Thomas Joseph Pettigrew - 1842 - 82 pages
...ground it in hand-mills, similar to those now used for corn in the valley of the Nile, made of a granite stone ; one of which is to be found in almost every...little white mounds, the residue of the operation. Besides the numerous remains of houses in this station, are two large buildings, with towers at the... | |
 | John Gardner Wilkinson - 1847 - 444 pages
...either entire or broken. » Similar huts are met with at all the quarries and mines of these deserts. " The quartz thus reduced to powder was washed on inclined...little white mounds, the residue of the operation. Besides the numerous remains of houses in this station, are two large buildings, with towers at the... | |
 | 1854 - 488 pages
...reduced to powder was washed on inclined tabl«s, furnished with two cisterns, all built of fragment of stone collected there ; and near these inclined...little white mounds, the residue of the operation. Besides the numerous remains of houses in this station, are two large buildings, with towers at the... | |
 | Sir John Gardner Wilkinson - 1854 - 466 pages
...who ground it in hand-mills, similar to those now used for corn in the valley of the Nile, made of a granitic stone ; one of which is to be found in almost...little white mounds, the residue of the operation. Besides the numerous remains of houses in this station, are two large buildings, with towers at the... | |
 | John Gardner Wilkinson - 1854 - 466 pages
...who ground it in hand-mills, similar to those now used for corn in the valley of the Nile, made of a granitic stone ; one of which is to be found in almost...little white mounds, the residue of the operation. Besides the numerous remains of houses in this station, are two large buildings, with towers at the... | |
 | 1854 - 470 pages
...reduced to powder was washed on inclined table s, furnished with two cisterns, all built of fragment of stone collected there ; and near these inclined...little white mounds, the residue of the operation. Besides the numerous remains of houses in this station, are two large buildings, with towers at the... | |
 | William Smith - 1863 - 1038 pages
...ground it in hand-mills, similar to those now used for com in the valley of the Nile made of gi-anitic stone; one of which is to be found in almost every...residue of the operation." According to the account given by Diodorus Siculus (iii. 1214), the mines were worked by gangs of convicts and captives in fetters,... | |
 | William Smith - 1863 - 1042 pages
...the persons who ground it in hand-mills, similar to those now used for corn in the valley of the Nile made of granitic stone ; one of which is to be found...residue of the operation." According to the account given by Oiodorus Siculus (iii. 1214), the mines were worked by gangs of convicts and captives in fetters,... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1863 - 1038 pages
...the persons who ground it in hand-mills, similar to those now UMS] fur corn in the valley of the Nile made of granitic stone ; one of which is to be found...residue of the operation.'* According to the account given by Diodorus Siculus (iii. 1214), the mines were worked by gangs of convicts and captives in fetters,... | |
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