Note 24 — MORE OBSERVATIONS MADE IN EGYPT, BY Guilandinus, Alpinus, and others.
Nicolaus Staphorst translation
Which may also be confirmed by Bellonius’s observations, who describing the rock out of which, upon Moses’s striking it, there gushed out waters, makes it to be such a speckled kind of Thebaic marble: Est une grosse pierre massive droicte de mesme grain & de la couleur qu’est la pierre Thebaique.