The Hundred Wonders of the World: And of the Three Kingdoms of Nature, Described According to the Latest and Best AuthoritiesJ. Babcock and Son, 1821 - 660 ページ |
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... Columns , Natural Bridges , 25. Natural Bridges of Icononzo , 26. Rock Bridge , in Virginia , Precipices and Promontories , 27. Bessely Gaut , The Cape of the Winds , The North Cape , Precipices of San Antonia , in South America ...
... Columns , Natural Bridges , 25. Natural Bridges of Icononzo , 26. Rock Bridge , in Virginia , Precipices and Promontories , 27. Bessely Gaut , The Cape of the Winds , The North Cape , Precipices of San Antonia , in South America ...
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... column of smoke , and hence , as well as from the sides , arose several streams of smoke , resembling thin clouds . Within the aperture a liquid ignited matter was clearly seen , constant- ly undulating , boiling , rising and falling ...
... column of smoke , and hence , as well as from the sides , arose several streams of smoke , resembling thin clouds . Within the aperture a liquid ignited matter was clearly seen , constant- ly undulating , boiling , rising and falling ...
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... column , of the darkest hue , over the mountain , as seemed to threaten Naples with immedi- ate destruction , it having at one time been bent over the city , and appearing to be much too massive and ponderous to remain long suspended in ...
... column , of the darkest hue , over the mountain , as seemed to threaten Naples with immedi- ate destruction , it having at one time been bent over the city , and appearing to be much too massive and ponderous to remain long suspended in ...
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... column of fire was seen to rise from the aperture , carrying up stones in a state of complete ignition , which fell again into the crater . The noise by which these igneous explosions were accompanied resembled the roaring of the most ...
... column of fire was seen to rise from the aperture , carrying up stones in a state of complete ignition , which fell again into the crater . The noise by which these igneous explosions were accompanied resembled the roaring of the most ...
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... column of spray and vapour , at least sixty feet high . They enjoyed this astonishing and beautiful sight until seven o'clock , when it gradually disappeared . The remaining part of the morning was occupied in examining the environs of ...
... column of spray and vapour , at least sixty feet high . They enjoyed this astonishing and beautiful sight until seven o'clock , when it gradually disappeared . The remaining part of the morning was occupied in examining the environs of ...
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animal appearance arch ascending banks basaltic beautiful beneath bolides bottom breadth Calabria called cataract cave cavern clouds coast colour columns considerable course covered crater degrees depth descending distance dreadful earth earthquake elevated eruption extent extremity fall fifty fire flame flows fossil four Giant's Causeway greater GROTTA DEL CANE grotto ground Guacharo half height Herculaneum hills hundred feet inhabitants island lake lake Agnano land lava length light mass mephitis miles mineral mines motion mountain mouth nature navigable nearly noise observed ocean passage perpendicular Peru petrifactions phenomena pillars Pompeii pounds sterling precipice quantity remains resembling rise river rock rock-salt ruins salt sand Santorini seen shock side situated smoke snow spot spring stalactites stones stratum stream substance subterraneous summit surface thick thirty thousand tion trees twenty vapour vast violent volcano walls whole wind yards
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361 ページ - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
258 ページ - ... with a majestic slowness; at intervals we thought they were coming in a very few minutes to overwhelm us; and small quantities of sand, did actually more than once reach us. Again they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds...
332 ページ - Dares stretch her wing o'er this enormous mass Of rushing water ; scarce she dares attempt The sea-like Plata ; to whose dread expanse, Continuous depth, and wondrous length of course, Our floods are rills.
322 ページ - I, who had ambition not only to go farther than any one had been before, but as far as it was possible for man to go...
440 ページ - Plac'd far amid the melancholy main, (Whether it be lone fancy him beguiles ; Or that aerial beings sometimes deign To stand embodied, to our senses plain) Sees on the naked hill, or valley low, The whilst in ocean Phcebus dips his wain., " A vast assembly moving to and fro ; Then all at once in air dissolves the wondrous show.
574 ページ - There is nothing in the Holy Land finer than the view of Napolose, from the heights around it. As the traveller descends towards it from the hills, it appears luxuriantly embosomed in the most delightful and fragrant bowers ; half concealed by rich gardens, and by stately trees collected into groves, all around the bold and beautiful valley in which it stands.
361 ページ - Thames ! the most lov'd of all the Ocean's sons By his old sire, to his embraces runs, Hasting to pay his tribute to the sea, Like mortal life to meet eternity ; Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber, and their gravel gold : His genuine and less guilty wealth to' explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore, O'er which he kindly spreads his spacious wing, And hatches plenty for th...
502 ページ - Who bid the stork, Columbus-like, explore Heavens not his own, and worlds unknown before? Who calls the council, states the certain day ? Who forms the phalanx, and who points the way ? III.
312 ページ - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
522 ページ - In winter the Gymnosophists enjoy the benefit of the sun's rays in the open air ; and in summer, when the heat becomes excessive, they pass their time in cool and moist places, under large trees ; which, according to the accounts of Nearchus, cover a circumference of five acres, and extend their branches so far, that ten thousand men may easily find shelter under them.