 | 1832 - 574 pàgines
...Straits, in Wales. The sound of a blow with a hammer on one of the main piers is returned in sue* cession from each of the cross beams which support the road-way, and from tbe opposite pier at tbe distance of 576 feet ; and, in addition to this, the sound is many times repeated... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1831 - 620 pàgines
...known, and the confessional was removed. * 4 Beneath the Suspension Bridge across the Menai Strait in Wales, close to one of the main piers, is a remarkably...hammer is returned in succession from each of the cross-beams which support the road-way, and from the opposite pier at a distance of 576 feet; and in... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1831 - 620 pàgines
...known, and the confessional was removed. * ' Beneath the Suspension Bridge across the Menai Strait in Wales, close to one of the main piers, is a remarkably...hammer is returned in succession from each of the cross-beams which support the road-way, and from the opposite pier at a distance of 576 feet ; and... | |
 | 1831 - 472 pàgines
...generally known, and the confessional was removed * " Beneath the Suspension Bridge across the Menai Strait in Wales, close to one of the main piers, is a remarkably...hammer is returned in succession from each of the cross-beams which support the road-way, and from * Travels through Sicily and the Liparl Islands in... | |
 | 1831 - 624 pàgines
...known, and the confessional was removed. * ' Beneath the Suspension Bridge across the Menai Strait in Wales, close to one of the main piers, is a remarkably...hammer is returned in succession from each of the cross-beams which support the road-way, and from the opposite pier at a distance of 576 feet ; and... | |
 | 1831 - 626 pàgines
...generally known, and the confessional was removed.1 ' Beneath the Suspension Bridge across the Menai Strait in Wales, close to one of the main piers, is a remarkably fine echo. The sound of a blow on the pier with 1 Travels through Sicily and the Li pari Islands, in the month of December, 1821, By a Naval Officer.... | |
 | 1831 - 632 pàgines
...The sound of a blow on the pier with a hammer is returned in succession from each of the cross-beams which support the road-way, and from the opposite pier at a distance of 570 feet ; and' in addition to this, the sound is many times repeated between the water and the road-way.... | |
 | 1832 - 424 pàgines
...generally known and the confessional was removed. Beneath the Suspension Bridge across the Menai Strait in Wales, close to one of the main piers, is a remarkably...hammer is returned in succession from each of the cross-beams which support the road-way, and from the opposite pier, at a distance of 579 feet ; and... | |
 | 1832 - 428 pàgines
...The sound of a blow on the pier with a hammer is returned in succession from each of the cross-beams which support the road-way, and from the opposite pier, at a distance of 579 feet ; and in addition to this, the sound is many times repeated between the water and the road-way.... | |
 | Sir David Brewster - 1835 - 322 pàgines
...hammer," says he, " on one of the main piers, is returned in succession from each of the crossbeams which support the road-way, and from the opposite pier at a distance of 576 feet ; and in addition to this, the sound is many times repeated between the water and the road-way.... | |
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Beneath the Suspension Bridge across the Menai Strait in Wales, close to one of the main piers, is a remarkably fine echo. The sound of a blow on the pier with a hammer is returned in succession from each of the... 
