| Robert Bakewell - 1815 - عدد الصفحات: 562
...obliged him to land, at Lopizicum : " Here (says he) scenes Hi ruin every u here appeared around me ; hut my attention was quickly turned from more remote to...springs and lakes in distant parts of the world, is trulv remarkable. During the earthquake of Lisbon in ] 755, almost all the springs and lakes in Britain... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 470
...cloud was passed away : then turning to look for the city, it was totally sunk. Wonderful to tell ! nothing but a dismal and putrid lake was to be seen where it stood. We looked about to find some one that could tell us of its sad catastrophe, but could see... | |
| Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 414
...cloud was passed away : then, turning to look for the city, it was totally sunk. Wonderful to tell ! nothing but a dismal and putrid lake was to be seen where it stood. We looked about to find some one, that could tell us of it's sad catastrophe, but could see... | |
| John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 820
...ceased. I stood up, and turning my eyes to Euphemia, saw only a frightful black cloud. We waited till it passed away, when nothing but a dismal and putrid lake was to be seen where the city once stood." If such are the effects of earthquakes, it is not surprising that the inhabitants of those countries... | |
| William Williams Mather - 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 164
...for Kupliemia, saw only n frightful black cloud. We waited till it had passed avray, when nothing hut a dismal and putrid lake was to be seen where the city onre stood." A shock rarely lasts more than a minute, but often there is a succession of shocks, with... | |
| William Mullinger Higgins - 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 514
...ceased. I stood up, and turning my eyes to Euphemia, saw only a frightful black cloud. We waited till it passed away, when nothing but a dismal and putrid lake was to be seen where the city once stood.'* Humboldt has described, with his characteristic energy, the feelings which are experienced by an individual... | |
| 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 422
...ceased. I stood up, and turning my eyes to Euphemia, saw only a frightful black cloud. We waited till it passed away, when nothing but a dismal and putrid lake was to be seen where the city once stood." Humboldt ha» described, with his characteristic energy, the feelings which are experienced by an individual... | |
| 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 534
...but my attention was quickly turned from more remote to contiguous danger, by a deep rumbling sound,f which every moment grew louder. The place where we...putrid lake was to be seen, where the city once stood." Changes in the relative levels of the land, are common occurrences in volcanic countries. On the western... | |
| 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 1078
...After some time, the violent paroxysm ceasing, I stood up, and turning my eyes to look for Eupheinia. saw only a frightful black cloud. We waited till it...putrid lake was to be seen, where the city once stood." Changes in the relative levels of the land, are common occurrences in volcanic countries. On the western... | |
| Edward Robinson - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 536
...After some time, the violent paroxysm ceasing, I stood up, and turning my eyes to look for Eup'.icmia, saw only a frightful black cloud. We waited till it...putrid lake was to be seen, where the city once stood." Changes in the relative levels of the land, are common occurrences in volcanic countries. On the western... | |
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