 | Jacob Bryant - Folklore and history - 1807 - 494 pages
...stone, with the print of a foot like a man's on it, but far bigger, being about two feet long. The people of this land count it meritorious to go and worship this impression ; and generally about the new year, the men, women, and children go up this vast and high mountain to worship. Knox. Hist,... | |
 | Jacob Bryant - Folklore and history - 1807 - 502 pages
...stone, with the print of a foot like a man's on it, but far bigger, being about two feet long. The people of this land count it meritorious to go and worship this impression ; and generally about the new year, the men, women, and children go up this vast and high mountain to worship. Knox. Hist,... | |
 | Jacob Bryant - History, Ancient - 1807 - 492 pages
...land count it meritorious to go and worship this impression ; and generally about the new year, the men, women, and children go up this vast and high mountain to worship. Knox. Hist. of Ceylon, p. 5. The notion of this being Adam's Pike, and the print of Adam's foot, did... | |
 | Jacob Bryant - Folklore and history - 1807 - 524 pages
...land count it meritorious to go and worbhip ibis impression ; and generally about the new year, the men, women, and children go up this vast and high mountain to worship. Knox. Hist, of Ceylon, p. 5. The notion of this being Adam's Pike, and the print of Adam's foot, did... | |
 | 1829 - 292 pages
...stone, with the print of a foot like a man's on it, but far bigger, being about two feet long. The people of this land count it meritorious to go and worship this impression," &c., — Ceylon, p. 5. The Cingalese assert, that the foot-mark is that of Buddh. Ib. p. 144 ; Addition,... | |
 | 1833 - 540 pages
...Hat stone with the print of a foot like a man's on t, but far bigger, being about two feet long. The people of this land count it meritorious to go and worship this iinprussion ; and generally about their new year, which is in March, they, men, women, and children,... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - Table-talk - 1840 - 286 pages
...flat stone with the print of a foot like a man's on it, but far bigger, being about two feet long. The people of this land count it meritorious to go and...children, go up this vast and high mountain to worship." The print of the foot is suppose/! to be that of Buddha, which he left when ascending to heaven. He... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - Table-talk - 1840 - 290 pages
...flat stone with the print of a foot like a man's on it, but far bigger, being about two feet long. The people of this land count it meritorious to go and...children, go up this vast and high mountain to worship." The print of the foot is supposed to be that of Buddha, which he left when ascending to heaven. He... | |
 | Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1841 - 504 pages
...flat stone with the print of a foot like a man's on it, but far bigger, being about two feet long. The people of this land count it meritorious to go and...generally about their new year, which is in March, men, women, and children, go up this vast and high mountain to worship." The print of the foot is supposed... | |
 | 1846 - 544 pages
...flat stone with the print of a foot like a man's on it, but far bigger, being about two feet long. The people of this land count it meritorious to go and...children, go up this vast and high mountain to worship. Its narrow apex, which is only twentythree paces long by eighteen broad, is surrounded by a wall, in... | |
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It is sharp like a sugar-loaf, and on the top is a flat stone with the print of a foot like a man's on it, but far bigger, being about two feet long. The people of this land count it meritorious to go and worship this impression ; and generally about... 
