 | William Clarke (Architect) - 1847 - 636 pàgines
...of which decreased as it advanced upwards, or the cloud itself being pressed back again by its own weight, expanded in this manner : it appeared sometimes bright and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This extraordinary phenomenon excited my uncle's philosophical... | |
 | Henry Peter Dunster - 1850 - 372 pàgines
...decreased as it advanced upwards, or the cloud itself, being pressed back again by its own tveight, expanded in this manner ; it appeared sometimes bright, and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This astounding phenomenon excited my uncle's philosophical... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1851 - 442 pàgines
...of which decreased as it advanced upwards ; or the cloud itself, being pressed back again by its own weight, expanded in this manner. It appeared sometimes...cinders. This extraordinary phenomenon excited my uncle's philosophical curiosity to take a nearer view of it. He ordered a light vessel to be got ready, and... | |
 | 1840 - 524 pàgines
...to a great height in the form of a trunk, which extended itself at top into a sort of branches ; and it appeared sometimes bright, and sometimes dark and...more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This was a noble phenomenon for the philosophic Pliny, who immediately ordered a light vessel to be got... | |
 | Daniel Clarke Eddy - 1852 - 538 pàgines
...of which decreased as it advanced upwards, or the cloud itself, being pressed back again by its own weight, expanded in this manner. It appeared sometimes bright and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This extraordinary phenomenon excited my uncle's philosophical... | |
 | Ruins - 1852 - 464 pàgines
...of which decreased as it advanced upwards, or the cloud itself being pressed back again by its own weight, .expanded in this manner: it appeared sometimes bright and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This extraordinary phenomenon excited my uncle's philosophical... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1854 - 740 pàgines
...of which decreased as it advanced upward ; or the cloud itself b^ing pressed back again by its own weight, expanded in this manner. It appeared sometimes...cinders. This extraordinary phenomenon excited my uncle's philosophical curiosity to take a nearer view of it. He ordered a light vessel to be got ready, and... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 332 pàgines
...upwards, or the cloud itself, being pressed back again by its own weight, expanded in this summer ; it appeared sometimes bright and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was either more * A promontory of Sicily, so called from Misccus, a faithful companion of -KUCU3, or less impregnated... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 650 pàgines
...of which decreased as it advanced upwards, or the cloud itself, being pressed back again by its own weight, expanded in this manner ; it appeared sometimes...sometimes dark and spotted, as it was either more or less imprcg* uated with earth and cinders. This extraordinary phenomenon excited my uncle's philosophical... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 358 pàgines
...itself, being pressed back again by its own weight, expanded in this manner ; it appeared sonwtimes bright and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was either more or less impreg-. 204 HALF-HOURS WITH THE BEST AUTHOBS. [pLDfTf THE YOUNGER. uated with earth and cinders. This... | |
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... at the top into a sort of branches ; occasioned, I imagine, either by a sudden gust of air that impelled it, the force of which decreased as it advanced upwards, or the cloud itself, being pressed back again by its own weight, expanded in this manner;... 
