honey-stone

A range of honey-stone hills gave the town naturally steep and sprawling streets, making this district of wonder-workers a veritable warren – as Farien would discover soon enough – though the river itself, only a series of braided streams when it was first discovered, had been manipulated by weirs into a single channel that accessed the fish-rich waters of the ocean.

One Year’s Worth of Woe « A Fly in Amber 2009

Here will be found the honey-stone of Thuringia; crystals of phosphate of magnesia and ammonia called struvite; beautiful specimens of amber, some pieces of which inclose insects; and copal, also containing insects; fossil copal; mineral pitch, from naphtha to asphalt; the elastic bitumen of Derbyshire, exhibiting its different degrees of softness; Humboldt's dapèche, an inflammable fossil of South America; and brown and black coal.

How to See the British Museum in Four Visits W. Blanchard Jerrold 1855

Around him Captain Farien could see that most of the buildings were hewn from the yellow honey-stone of the quarries they’d passed in the outlying countryside (such stuff, he later told his daughter, the bard Johann Swiftsheaf had described as ‘… those bricks of dusty sunlight’ when he had passed through) and so, all in all, he was satisfied he had not brought his child to a backwater.

One Year’s Worth of Woe « A Fly in Amber 2009