 | James Sowerby - 1804 - 464 sivua
...It is somewhat stalactitical, and extremely various in its shapes, sometimes forming roundish drops from the size of a pin's head to that of a large pea, and often of a knotty elongated figure like a potatoe. It seems to be a transition from quartz, and... | |
 | Geological Society of London - 1817 - 582 sivua
...black, and of an earthy fracture, and contain nodules of quartz and chalcedony, varying in magnitude from the size of a pin's head to that of a large pea. Other specimens of the rock are hard, coarse grained, and of an iron-grey colour ; but in neither varieties... | |
 | Catherine Hutton - 1821 - 602 sivua
...variegated with lines of fire. This annual conflagration is soon followed by .a delightful verdure. Gold in grains, from the size of a pin's head to that of a pea, is found in considerable quantities throughout Handing, scattered through a large body of sand... | |
 | 1849 - 600 sivua
...already been mentioned as forming 20,000 new cells every- minute, and which has been known to grow from the size of a pin's head to that of a large gourd in one night, is merely the fruit of the underground creeping stem, technically called mycelium... | |
 | 1847 - 614 sivua
...very troublesome. " The body, but especially the arms and legs, are covered with vesicles or bullae, from the size of a pin's head to that of a large pea, and even of a larger size. There is no fever, these vesicles break and discharge, leaving deep scales.... | |
 | 1847 - 588 sivua
...very troublesome. " The body, but especially the arms and legs, are covered with vesicles or 'mils; from the size of a pin's head to that of a large pea, and even of a larger size. There is no fever, these vesicles break and discharge, leaving deep scales.... | |
 | 1849 - 602 sivua
...has already been mentioned as forming 20,000 new cells every minute, and which has been known to grow an two thousand years ago by the waters of Babyl gourd in one night, is merely the fruit of the underground creeping stem, technically called mycelium... | |
 | 1861 - 1642 sivua
...dust, my readers should know, is not a powder like flour or the dust of the earth, but it is found in grains from the size of a pin's head to that of a pea, or larger. The way we collected it was by taking a few handfuls of sand and gravel and placing... | |
 | 1851 - 510 sivua
...principally formed of a more solid substance, and filled with an enormous number of cysts, varying from the size of a pin's head to that of a large orange. These cysts, which were all lined with a thin, smooth, delicate- looking membrane, were filled... | |
 | 1852 - 460 sivua
...denominated Vitiligo by Willan. It presents itself under two forms — namely, either u tubercles, varying from the size of a pin's head to that of a large pea, isolated or confluent ; or, secondly, as yellow patches of irregular outline, slightly elevated, and... | |
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... tubercles, varying from the size of a pin's head to that of a large pea, isolated or confluent ; or, secondly, as yellowish patches of irregular outline, slightly elevated, and with but little hardness. 
