[…] we finally arrived in El Obeid […] after doing the last sixty miles in third gear, with frequent revvings in neutral to keep the engine going.

It is a major shortcoming of R. Henry’s Budé text of the Photian excerpts that he does not make clear when we have fuller versions of the Photian text.

I've been given three weeks' leave by my boss.

Adularization is developed mainly in amygdaloidal, upper fragments of the flows of the so-called melaphyres, along dysjunctive zones or endocontacts of larger intrusions, but wholly confines smaller igneous bodies (e.g., dikes of ...