The tongue of time, and star of the states: [electronic resource]: a system of human nature, with the phenomena of the heavens and earth. : American antiquities, remains of giants, geology, volcanoes, Egyptian and Indian magic, diet, dress, drinks, diseases, sleep, somnambulism, trances, resuscitation. : Also an account of persons with two souls, and of five persons who told colors by the touch (1840)
Comstock, Joseph · Hartford: : [s.n.] · leaf 90
In the spring of 1807, Capt. Allen was master of the ship Ju-piter, of Philadelphia, on a voyage up the Mediterranean. Inthe month of May of that year, he lay a considerable time at theport of Girgenti, the ancient Agrigentum, in the island of Sicily.Its situation is about twenty leagues from… … Digging into the earth to obtain sulphur, is a common employ-ment of the people of the island of Sicily, and they had here dugto the depth of one hundred and seventy feet! when they cameto a marble wall, adorned with hieroglyphics. When they wereattempting to remove a part of this wall, it fell…
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