pitchstone

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From pitch + stone.

The whole northern and lower portion of the island had vanished, except an isolated pitchstone rock, ten yards square, and projecting out of the ocean with deep water all around it. — Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror, Trumbull White
South of the park the Pitchstone Plateau merges into the foothills of the Teton Mountains, which, thirty miles south of the southern boundary, rise precipitously seven thousand feet above the general level of the country. — The Book of the National Parks, Robert Sterling Yard

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