 | 1863 - 822 ページ
...land : when "the noxious vapours that for many months infected the air, enveloped the whole island in a dense fog which obscured the sun, and was perceptible even in England and Holland." Still farther westward in our panoramic view, the confusion between past and present becomes even more... | |
 | James Nicol - 1840 - 434 ページ
...country, and some were conveyed to the Faroe Islands, a distance of nearly 300 miles.t The noxious vapours that for many months infected the air were equally...perceptible even in England and Holland. The steam * The mass of matter ejected on this occasion must have been enormous, and gives no countenance to... | |
 | 1842 - 1008 ページ
...nearly 300 miles. The noxious vapours that far many months infected the air were equally pernicioaa to man and beast, and covered the whole island with a dense fog, which obscured the sun, aud was perceptible even in England and Holland. The steam rising from the crater, or exhaled from... | |
 | Andrew James Symington - 1862 - 340 ページ
...and some were conveyed to the Faroe islands, a distance of nearly 300 miles. 1 The noxious vapours that for many months infected the air were equally...perceptible even in England and Holland. The steam risiug from the crater, or exhaled from the boiling waters, was condensed in the cooler regions of... | |
 | Herman Merivale - 1865 - 520 ページ
...land; when ' the noxious vapours that for many months infected the air, enveloped the whole island in a dense fog which obscured the sun, and was perceptible even in England and Holland.' Still farther westward in our panoramic view, the confusion between past and present becomes even more... | |
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The steam risiug from the crater, or exhaled from the boiling waters, was condensed in the cooler regions of the atmosphere, and descended in floods that deluged the fields and consolidated the ashes into a thick black crust . A fall of snow in the middle... 