The tongue of time, and star of the states : a system of human nature, with the phenomena of the heavens and earth ... also an account of persons with two souls, and of five persons who took colors by the touch (1838)
Comstock, Joseph · New York : [s.n.] · leaf 91
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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