| 1812 - 1020 páginas
...marked by the silvery ripling of the waves, occasioned by the light and steady breezes incidental to to those climates in summer. In a quiescent state,...these again forming themselves into festoons of w'hite feathery srookc in the most fanciful manner imaginable, intermixed with the finest particles of falling... | |
| William Nicholson - 1812 - 860 páginas
...overtopping the other till they had attained an altitude as much above the level of our eye, as the sea wa* below it. As the impetus with which the columns were...propelled diminished, and their ascending motion had pearly ceased, they broke into various branches resembling a group* pf pines, these again forming themselves... | |
| 1813 - 818 páginas
...summer. In a quiescent state, it had the appearance of a circular cloud revolving on the water like a horizontal wheel, in various and irregular involutions,...ceased, they broke into various branches resembling a group of pines, these again forming themselves into festoons of white feathery smoke iu the most fanciful... | |
| Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 568 páginas
...windward : this was rapidly succeeded by a second, third, and 2 K 4 fourth, each acquiring grrater velocity, and overtopping the other till they had...these again forming themselves into festoons of white feathery smoke in the most fuuciful manner imaginable, intermixed with the fiuest particles of tailing... | |
| Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 592 páginas
...succeeded by a second, third, and fourth, each acquiring greater velocity, and overtopping the oihei till they had attained an altitude as much above the...these again forming themselves into festoons of white feathery smoke in the most fanciful manner imaginable, intermixed with the finest particles of falling... | |
| Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - 1818 - 590 páginas
...second, third, and fourth, each acquiring greater velocity, and overtopping the other till they bad attained an altitude as much above the level of our...these again forming themselves into festoons of white feathery smoke in the most fanciful manner imaginable, intermixed with the finest par* ticles of falling... | |
| 1819 - 382 páginas
...of from ten to twenty degrees from a perpendicular line, the angle of inclination being umversally to windward : this was rapidly succeeded by a second,...severally propelled, diminished, and their ascending mo . (ion had nearly ceased, they broke into various branches resembling a group of pines, these again... | |
| 1819 - 384 páginas
...from ten to twenty degrees from a perpendicular line, the angle of inclination being umversally tp windward: this was rapidly succeeded by a second,...severally propelled, diminished, and their ascending mo tion hud nearly ceased, they broke into various branches resembling a group of pines, these again... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1821 - 976 páginas
...horizontal wheel, in various and irregular involutions, expanding itself gradually on the lee side; jvheu suddenly a column of the blackest cinders, ashes,...ceased, they broke into various branches resembling a group of pines, these again forming themselves into festoons of white feathery smoke in the most fanciful... | |
| Alexander Jamieson - 1821 - 448 páginas
...lee side, when suddenly a column of the blackest cinders, ashes, and stones would shoot up in foim of a spire at an angle of from ten to twenty degrees...these again forming themselves into festoons of white feathery smoke in the most fanciful manner imaginable, intermixed with the finest particles of falling... | |
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