"A whole Petra was there, a system of projecting prisms, pyramids, and pagoda towers, a variety of form that enabled you to see whatever your peculiar vanity might be; columns, porticoes, facades, and pedestals."
              Richard Burton 1860

"A little below this [Winged Rocks], are the 'Kettle Rocks' huge gray looking boulders, nearly to the top of the ledge, looking like immense caldron kettles. Behind them are some sharp-pointed projections like spires."
                                                                                              Henry T. Williams 1876