Jon Ellison wrote:

>I don't understand .
>I'm asking a question about something that is very important to
>me.

And what is that...... something like "What type of rock is it?"...... why is that so " Very important.." to you?

>What's the problem?

I'm asking you.... what rocks were they not able to carve into a stone vessel with hand-powered lapidary tools?

>I don't recall saying that hard stone can only scratch soft
>stone

"hard stone rocks will carve into a soft stone vessel such as limestone"........ So we are to take from that that hard stone rocks will carve into a hard stone vessel too?

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