 | William Denton, Elizabeth M. Foote Denton - 1873 - 460 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." * (5.) In Pliny's description of the eruption, he... | |
 | William Gee - 1895 - 336 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 Allen Tupper - 1898 - 480 pàgines
...of which decreased as it advanced upward, 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 became more and more impregnated with earth and cinders. This was a surprising phenomenon, and it deserved,... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 458 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 if it was either more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This extraordinary phenomenon excited... | |
 | 1901 - 660 pàgines
...the manner I have mentioned ; it appeared sometimes bright and sometimes dark and spotted, according as it was either more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This phenomenon seemed, to a man of such learning and research as my uncle, extraordinary and worth further... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1905 - 494 pàgines
...to a great height in the form of a trunk, which extended itself at the top into a sort of branches. It appeared sometimes bright and sometimes dark and...cinders. This extraordinary phenomenon excited my uncle vessel to be got ready, and gave me liberty, if I thought proper, to attend him. I chose rather... | |
 | Charles Francis Horne - 1905 - 440 pàgines
...the manner I have mentioned ; it appeared sometimes bright and sometimes dark and spotted, according as it was either more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This phenomenon seemed to a man of such learning and research as my uncle extraordinary and worth further... | |
 | Pliny (the Younger.) - 1905 - 502 pàgines
...the manner I have mentioned; it appeared sometimes bright and sometimes dark and spotted, according as it was either more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This phenomenon seemed to a man of such learning and research as my uncle extraordinary and worth further... | |
 | 1902 - 1212 pàgines
...discovered to be from Mount Vesuvius. In shape it resembled a pine-tree, and appeared sometimes bright, sometimes dark and spotted, as it was- either more...cinders. This extraordinary phenomenon excited my uncle's curiosity, and he determined to take a nearer view of it. He ordered a light vessel to be prepared,... | |
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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;... 
