 | 1836 - 1184 pàgines
...comparison with the beauteous profusion of extinct vegetable forms with which the galleries of these instructive coal mines are overhung. The roof is covered...surface. The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal-black colour of these vegetables, with the light ground work of the rock to which they are attached.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 610 pàgines
...comparison with the beauteous profusion of extinct vegetable forms with which the galleries of these instructive coal mines are overhung. The roof is covered...surface. The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal-black colour of these vegetables, with the light ground work of the rock to which they are attached.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 606 pàgines
...comparison with the beauteous profusion of extinct vegetable forms with which the galleries of these instructive coal mines are overhung. The roof is covered...surface. The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal-black colour of these vegetables, with the light ground work of the rock to which they are attached.... | |
 | Ohio. General Assembly - 1836 - 174 pàgines
...comparison with the beauteous profusion of extinct vegetable forms with which the galleries of these instructive coal mines are overhung. The roof is covered...graceful foliage, flung in wild, irregular profusion overy portion of its surface. The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal black color of these... | |
 | William Buckland - 1837 - 476 pàgines
...beauteous profusion of extinct vegetable forms, with which the galleries of these instructive coal-mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy...surface. The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal-black colour of these vegetables, with the light ground-work of the rock to which they are attached.... | |
 | 1837 - 1822 pàgines
...beauteous profusion of extinct vegetable forms with which the galleries of these instructive coal-mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy...surface. The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal-black colour of these vegetables with the light ground-work of the rock to which they are attached.... | |
 | 1837 - 608 pàgines
...beauteous profusion of ex' tinct vegetable forms by which the galleries are overhung. ' The roof is covered with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched ' with...profusion over every portion of its surface.' . . . ' The ' spectator feels himself transported, as if by enchantment, into ' the forests of another world. He... | |
 | 1837
...beauteous profusion of extinct vegetable forms with which the galleries of these instructive coal-mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapeslry, enriched with festoons of most graceful foliage, flung in wild irregular profusion over every... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1838 - 372 pàgines
...beauteous profusion of extinct vegetable forms, with which the galleries of these instructive coal-mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy...surface. The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal-black colour of these vegetables, with the light ground- work of the rock to which they are attached.... | |
 | Frederick John Francis - 1839 - 204 pàgines
...beauteous profusion of extinct vegetableforms with which the galleries of these instructive coal-mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy...surface. The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coalblack colour of these vegetables with the light ground-work of the rock to which they are attached.... | |
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Coal mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons of most graceful foliage, flung in wild irregular profusion over every portion of its surface. The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal-black... 
