"Cilicious" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... effect on the iron is obviously occasioned by the muriatic acid in the sea spray; and were it not that the author expressly says they have no lime, one would be apt to believe that the stones so affected were limestone. There are, however, some cilicious sand-stones, in which the grit, or particles of sand, are cemented together by a calcareous infiltration, which may be the ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 • Robert Kerr |
