 | 1825 - 432 pàgines
...wall. The extremities are seldom sharp or angular, but almost always rounded, betraying the continued action of water. They generally terminate in some...were placed on a right truncated cone, resembling exact I y, but on an infinitely greater scale, what often occurs in caverns, where the descending stalactite... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1828 - 588 pàgines
...accompaniment at — Tuba, mirum spargens sonum , • Pet sepulchra regionum, Cogct omnes ante thronum. tain elevation, they begin to dilate again as they rise...an infinitely greater scale, what often occurs in caserns, where the descending stalactite rests on an ascending stalagmite. The abyss which lies deep... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1838 - 612 pàgines
...wall. The extremities are seldom sharp or angular, but almost always rounded, betraying the continued action of water. They generally terminate in some...descending stalactite rests on an ascending stalagmite. " — Russel's Germany. The rock of this district, which exhibits these phenomena, is the quadersandstein... | |
 | 1838 - 582 pàgines
...•wall. The extremities are seldom sharp or angular, but almost always rounded, betraying the continued action of water. They generally terminate in some...right truncated cone, resembling exactly, but on an in6nitely greater scale, what often occurs in caverns, where the descending stalactite rests on an... | |
 | John Murray (publishers.) - 1839 - 574 pàgines
...wall. The extremities are seldom sharp or angular, but almost always rounded, betraying the continued action of water. They generally terminate in some...descending stalactite rests on an ascending stalagmite. " — Russel's Germany. The rock of this district, which exhibits these phenomena, is the quadersandsteiu... | |
 | John Murray (publishers.) - 1839 - 574 pàgines
...wall. The extremities are seldom sharp or angular, but almost always rounded, betraying the continued action of water. They generally terminate in some...where the descending stalactite rests on an ascending stalagmite."—VtV, 1 ;sel's Germany. All that is best worth noticing, is described in the following... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1845 - 674 pàgines
...wall. The extremities are seldom sharp or angular, but almost always rounded, betraying the continued action of water. They generally terminate in some...descending stalactite rests on an ascending stalagmite." — linsseTs Germany. The rock of this district, which exhibits these phenomena, is the Quadersandstein... | |
 | John Murray (Firm), John Murray (publishers.) - 1850 - 676 pàgines
...wall. The extremities are seldom sharp or angular, ' but almost always rounded, betraying the continued action of water. They generally terminate in some...placed on a right truncated cone, resembling exactly, bu" on an infinitely greater scale, what often occurs in caverns, where the descending stalactite-... | |
 | John Murray (Firm), John Murray (publishers.) - 1852 - 662 pàgines
...form. Some have a huge rounded mase reclining on their summit, which appears scarcely broad cnoxigh to poise it ; others have a more regular mass laid...descending stalactite rests on an ascending stalagmite." — Biissell's Gernvmy. The rock of this district, which exhibits these phenomena, is the Quadersandstein... | |
 | William Somerville Orr - 1855 - 608 pàgines
...of a Doric pillar ; others assume the form of inverted pyramids, increasing in breadth as they snoot higher into the air. Occasionally they present a still...elevation, they begin to dilate again as they rise higher, and thus assume the shape of an inverted truncated cone, resembling exactly, but on an infinitely greater... | |
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They generally terminate in some singular form. Some have a huge rounded mass reclining on their summit, which appears scarcely broad enough to poise it; others have a more regular mass laid upon them, like the astragal of a Doric pillar ; others assume... 