 | Edward Hutton - 1915 - 392 pàgines
...of which decreased as it advanced upwards, or the cloud it left 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... | |
 | Esther Singleton - 1916 - 406 pàgines
...pressed back by its own weight, expanded itself in the manner * In the Gulf of Naples. I have mentioned; it appeared sometimes bright, and sometimes dark and...spotted, as it was either more or less impregnated with J|«r Puny earth and cinders. This uncommon appear- ob£™° ance excited my uncle's philosophical... | |
 | Sir John Alexander Hammerton - 1923 - 610 pàgines
...back by its own weight expanded itself in the manner I have mentioned. It appeared sometimes bright, sometimes dark and spotted, as it was either more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This uncommon appearance excited my uncle's philosophical curiosity to take a nearer view of it. He accordingly... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1872 - 854 pàgines
...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 spotted, as it was more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This extraordinary phenomenon excited my uncle's philosophical... | |
 | Robert W. Decker, Barbara B. Decker - 1991 - 230 pàgines
...again by its own weight ... it appeared sometimes bright and sometimes dark and spotted, according as it was either more or less impregnated with earth and cinders He ordered the galleys to put to sea, and went himself on board with an intention of assisting . .... | |
 | Richard V. Fisher - 2000 - 196 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... | |
 | Daniel Eddy - 2005 - 509 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... | |
 | Charles Kahn, Ken Osborne - 2005 - 368 pàgines
...top into a sort of branches... 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... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 848 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... | |
 | Samuel Prout Newcombe - 1850 - 706 pàgines
...being pressed back s again by its own weight, and ! expanded in this manner. It ' sometimes appeared bright, and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was...or less impregnated with earth and cinders." This was the singular appearance with which the terrible eruption began, and which so excited the curiosity... | |
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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;... 
