petrification

While wandering through the valley of the Clearwater and the adjacent hills, I was much struck with the wonders of petrification.

One day the Major met a company of miners, and related to them the wonderful specimens of petrification seen by him that day.

When she departed, as she did in a state bordering on petrification, he came forward to the bedside.

He would be freed, for ever, from the petrification of the grey, cramping little city.

This is a startling fact for natural philosophers, and must cause them to modify the existing theory of petrification.