Lost on Du-Corrig or Twixt Earth and Ocean (Paperback)
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Von Händler/Antiquariat, BuySomeBooks [52360437], Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 54 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.1in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: . . . CHAPTER XXXIII. JOHN FREEMAN CONCLUDES THE STORY. --A GOOD TREASURE-TROVE AND A MORAL. My story is nearly ended. Next day Ned and Mr. Watkins and myself descended into the Devils Parlour. We took with us a rock-drill, blasting-powder, a fuse, and a portmanteau. The reader will probably guess our purpose. It was to break open the tomb of old Curry and appropriate his treasures. I may have had some fear of the ghost, but not enough to prevent me from rifling his tomb. We bored, charged, and blasted into fragments the big stone which debarred entrance to the little nook where his ashes lay, thereby destroying--as I have been since told--what was perhaps an important archaeological relic. The fragments, however, are no doubt there still, waiting for the Eoyal Irish Academy or some other learned body to appropriate them. Eushing back as soon as the explosion was over, we discovered by the light of our candles, behind the place where the slab stood, a broken earthen pot and a great quantity of ashes and charred bones. Mingled with these we only found some pieces of metal--a few of gold, but the greater part of silver and bronze, all much defaced and injured, seemingly by the action of fire. But on each side of the heap of bones, ashes, and metal-work, we found also two smaller vases unbroken and filled, each of them to the brim, with many rings of gold. There was a fourth, broken too, but which evidently had been charged in the same manner, for the rings lay about in a heap mingled with sherds. This crock was placed opposite the pot containing the ashes. The rock behind these four pots had been planed or chiselled to a flat surface, and upon this were certain marks, but nothing in the nature of writing--only circles, spiral lines, and little. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, The Book Depository US [58762574], London, United Kingdom.
Language: English . Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: . CHAPTER XXXIII. JOHN FREEMAN CONCLUDES THE STORY.--A GOOD TREASURE-TROVE AND A MORAL. My story is nearly ended. Next day Ned and Mr. Watkins and myself descended into the Devil s Parlour. We took with us a rock-drill, blasting-powder, a fuse, and a portmanteau. The reader will probably guess our purpose. It was to break open the tomb of old Curry and appropriate his treasures. I may have had some fear of the ghost, but not enough to prevent me from rifling his tomb. We bored, charged, and blasted into fragments the big stone which debarred entrance to the little nook where his ashes lay, thereby destroying--as I have been since told--what was perhaps an important archaeological relic. The fragments, however, are no doubt there still, waiting for the Eoyal Irish Academy or some other learned body to appropriate them. Eushing back as soon as the explosion was over, we discovered by the light of our candles, behind the place where the slab stood, a broken earthen pot and a great quantity of ashes and charred bones. Mingled with these we only found some pieces of metal--a few of gold, but the greater part of silver and bronze, all much defaced and injured, seemingly by the action of fire. But on each side of the heap of bones, ashes, and metal-work, we found also two smaller vases unbroken and filled, each of them to the brim, with many rings of gold. There was a fourth, broken too, but which evidently had been charged in the same manner, for the rings lay about in a heap mingled with sherds. This crock was placed opposite the pot containing the ashes. The rock behind these four pots had been planed or chiselled to a flat surface, and upon this were certain marks, but nothing in the nature of writing--only circles, spiral lines, and little.

Lieferung aus: Vereinigtes Königreich Großbritannien und Nordirland, Free shipping.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, The Book Depository [54837791], London, United Kingdom.
Language: English . Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: . CHAPTER XXXIII. JOHN FREEMAN CONCLUDES THE STORY.--A GOOD TREASURE-TROVE AND A MORAL. My story is nearly ended. Next day Ned and Mr. Watkins and myself descended into the Devil s Parlour. We took with us a rock-drill, blasting-powder, a fuse, and a portmanteau. The reader will probably guess our purpose. It was to break open the tomb of old Curry and appropriate his treasures. I may have had some fear of the ghost, but not enough to prevent me from rifling his tomb. We bored, charged, and blasted into fragments the big stone which debarred entrance to the little nook where his ashes lay, thereby destroying--as I have been since told--what was perhaps an important archaeological relic. The fragments, however, are no doubt there still, waiting for the Eoyal Irish Academy or some other learned body to appropriate them. Eushing back as soon as the explosion was over, we discovered by the light of our candles, behind the place where the slab stood, a broken earthen pot and a great quantity of ashes and charred bones. Mingled with these we only found some pieces of metal--a few of gold, but the greater part of silver and bronze, all much defaced and injured, seemingly by the action of fire. But on each side of the heap of bones, ashes, and metal-work, we found also two smaller vases unbroken and filled, each of them to the brim, with many rings of gold. There was a fourth, broken too, but which evidently had been charged in the same manner, for the rings lay about in a heap mingled with sherds. This crock was placed opposite the pot containing the ashes. The rock behind these four pots had been planed or chiselled to a flat surface, and upon this were certain marks, but nothing in the nature of writing--only circles, spiral lines, and little.

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Standish O'Grady, Books, History, Lost on Du-Corrig or 'Twixt Earth and Ocean, Lost on Du-Corrig or 'Twixt Earth and Ocean.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, BuySomeBooks, NV, Las Vegas, [RE:5].
Trade paperback.