Volume 2

The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl.

Date:
[1821-1827?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    almost sacred; and there are few arti- cles of necessity or luxury which are deemed so valuable as stones that have been long used for sitting upon and thereby rendered smooth. Those who have it in their power to buy such stones, or who possess them by inheri- tance, place them around their houses and they serve as seats for the family. Each of the rajahs sets up in the principal town of his dominions a large stone as a monument of his reign. In the capital of the district of Seba, Cook counted thirteen such stones, besides fragments of others which had been erected at an earlier period and destroy- ed by time. Several of these stones were so large that it is difficult to con-