Eagle-stone

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of eaglestone. alt-of, alternative

    "THIS is the aetites, or eagle-stone, of which there is a great variety, and to which many virtues were ascribed by the ancients. When I shewed a picture of the eagle-stone to a bramhǔn who was sitting with me, without informing him what it was, he exclaimed—'This is the Shalgramǔ!' and added, (jocularly) — 'Oh! then, Englishmen will be saved, as they have the shalgramǔ amongst them.'"

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"THIS is the aetites, or eagle-stone, of which there is a great variety, and to which many virtues were ascribed by the ancients. When I shewed a picture of the eagle-stone to a bramhǔn who was sitting with me, without informing him what it was, he exclaimed—'This is the Shalgramǔ!' and added, (jocularly) — 'Oh! then, Englishmen will be saved, as they have the shalgramǔ amongst them.'"

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