 | Julia Kavanagh - 1858 - 344 pàgines
...own weight, expanded in this manner. It appeared sometimes bright, and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was either more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This extraordinary phenomenon excited my uncle's philosophical curiosity to take a nearer view of it. He... | |
 | Daniel Clarke Eddy - 1859 - 510 pàgines
...and spotted, as it was more or less impregnated with earth and 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 gave me the liberty, if I thought proper, to attend him.... | |
 | Wonders - 1866 - 400 pàgines
...and spotted, as it was more or less impregnated with earth and 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 gave me liberty, if I thought proper, to attend him. I... | |
 | Thomas Henry Dyer - 1867 - 626 pàgines
...and spotted, as it was more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This extraordinary phenomenon excited my uncle's philosophical curiosity to take a nearer view of it. He ordered a light vessel to bo got ready, and gave mo the liberty, if I thought proper, to attend him.... | |
 | Volcanoes - 1867 - 136 pàgines
...out at the top into a sort of branches. It appeared sometimes bright, and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was either more or less impregnated with earth and cinders." On seeing this remarkable appearance, the elder Pliny, who was a great naturalist and a man of inquiring... | |
 | Zurcher, Margollé - 1868 - 326 pàgines
...spotted, as it was either more or less impregnated with earth and 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 gave me the liberty, if I thought proper, to attend him.... | |
 | Frédéric Zurcher, Margollé - 1868 - 320 pàgines
...own weight, expanded in this manner ; it appeared sometimes bright and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was either more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This extraordinary phenomenon excited my uncle's philosophical curiosity to take a nearer view of it. He... | |
 | Daniel Clarke Eddy - 1868 - 270 pàgines
...hazardous nature." " How so ? " " The younger Pliny says of his uncle, ' The 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 gave me the liberty, if I thought proper, to attend him.... | |
 | Horace A. Cleveland - 1869 - 610 pàgines
...own weight, expanded in tins manner. It appeared sometimes bright, and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was either more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This extraordinary phenomenon excited my uncle's philosophical curiosity to take a nearer view of it. He... | |
 | John Phillips - 1869 - 406 pàgines
...spotted, as it was more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This extraordinary phsenomenon excited my uncle's philosophical curiosity to take a nearer view of it. He ordered a light vessel [liburnicam] to be got ready, and gave me the liberty, if I thought proper,... | |
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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; it appeared sometimes bright and sometimes dark... 
