 | Robert Bakewell - Geology - 1815 - 562 pages
...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... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English literature - 1816 - 414 pages
...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Physical geography - 1816 - 470 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Bakewell - Geology - 1828 - 614 pages
...greater or less violence, which continue to agitate the surface of the earth for a considerable time. During these shocks, large chasms and openings are...and lakes in distant parts of the world, is truly remarkable. During the earthquake of Lisbon in 1755, almost all the springs and lakes in Britain and... | |
 | Robert Bakewell - Geology - 1829 - 726 pages
...down and for ever disappeared, leaving a lake of water in the place. Such was the fate of £uphemia in Calabria, in 1638, as described by Kircher, who...and lakes in distant parts of the world, is truly remarkable. During the earthquake of Lisbon in 1755, almost all the springs and lakes in Britain and... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - Natural history - 1832 - 820 pages
...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 - Geology - 1833 - 164 pages
...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 - Earth (Planet) - 1836 - 514 pages
...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... | |
 | Child rearing - 1836 - 422 pages
...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... | |
 | Theology - 1840 - 534 pages
...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... | |
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Here (says he) scenes of ruin every where appeared around me; but my attention was quickly turned from more remote to contiguous danger, by a deep rumbling sound, which every moment grew louder. The place where we stood shook most dreadfully : after some... 
