 | Chambers's journal - 1872 - 854 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.... | |
 | 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
...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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Philip Dixon Hardy - 1836 - 442 pàgines
...just as it w« more or less impregnated with cinders. This uncommon appearance excited my uncle'» philosophical curiosity, to take a nearer view of...ordered a light vessel to be prepared, and offered roe the liberty, if I thought proper, to accompany him. I rather chose to continue the employment in... | |
 | Charles Morris - 1888 - 536 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.... | |
 | Samuel Prout Newcombe - 1850 - 706 pàgines
...weight, and ! expanded in this manner. It ' sometimes appeared bright, and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was either more or less impregnated with earth and cinders." This was the singular appearance with which the terrible eruption began, and which so excited the curiosity... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 848 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... | |
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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... 
