schistus

After crossing over the Akaba which is composed of granite schistus, we arrived, at the end of six hours, at a fine natural reservoir of rain water, among the granite rocks called Abou Adjadj

Travels in Nubia 2004

It seems to succeed best on the sides of mountains, among sandstone, schistus, and granite.

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. P. L. Simmonds

Now this schistus is continually worn away by the water's dashing against it.

A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America

There is a mountain called Guning Pandan, about eighty miles inland; from this branch out three rivers -- one leads to Mompava, one to Batu Bulat near Tanjong Mora, and one to Landa; the whole intermediate area between the above rivers is of a firm yellow argillaceous schistus, or ferruginous quartz, interspersed with horn and vitreous ores, of

The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel

The upper part of the cliffs is composed of hard limestone, and underneath is a bed of schistus.

A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America

Granite being thus found stratified, the masses of this stone cannot be allowed to any right of priority over the schistus, its companion in Alpine countries.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Various 1909

They were executed upon a ground of red ochre (rubbed on the black schistus), and were delineated by dots of white argillaceous earth, which had been worked up into a paste.

The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 Ernest Favenc 1876

Mr. Telford pursued the same system that he had adopted in the formation of the Carlisle and Glasgow road, as regards metalling, cross-draining, and fence-walling; for the latter purpose using schistus, or slate rubble-work, instead of sandstone.

The Life of Thomas Telford Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1867

Tracing a gallery round to windward, it brought me to a commodious cave or recess, overhung by a portion of the schistus, sufficiently large to shelter twenty natives whose recent fire places appeared on the projecting area of the cave.

Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1 George Grey 1855

They were executed on a ground of red ochre (rubbed on the black schistus) and were delineated by dots of a white argillaceous earth, which had been worked up into a paste.

Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1 George Grey 1855