 | Edmund Burke - History - 1815 - 858 pages
...rivers. Nature, in its uniform progreM, every where suggesis ihe same ideas of the causes of eaithquakes. and the means by which man, forgetting the measure...travellers the guaicos, or crevices of Pichincha. The subterraneous noi«e, so frequent during earthquakes, is generalh' not in the ratio of the strength... | |
 | English literature - 1815 - 1008 pages
...subterraneous explosion.«. What a gieat Roman naturalisl has said of the utility of weih and cavern«, is repeated in the New World by the most ignorant...travellers the guaicos, or crevices of Pichincha. The subterraneousnoise,so frequent during earthquakes, is generally nut in the ratio of the strength of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1815 - 1026 pages
...abounding with caverns, crevices, and subterraneous rivers. Nature, in its uniform, progress, every where suggests the same ideas of the causes of earthquakes,...travellers the guaicos, or crevices of Pichincha. The subterraneous noise, so frequent during earthquakes, is generally not in the ratio of the strength... | |
 | History - 1815 - 822 pages
...abounding with caverns, crevices, and subterraneous rivers. Nature, in its uniform progress, every where suggests the same ideas of the causes of earthquakes,...of the subterraneous explosions. What a great Roman naturaliit has said of the utility of wells and caverns is repeated in the New World by the most ignorant... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - Natural history - 1818 - 666 pages
...crevic'es, and subterraneous rivers. Nature, in if s uniform progress, everywhere suggests the feame' ideas of the causes of earthquakes, and the means...of wells and caverns * is repeated in the New World * In puteis est remedium, qnale et crcbri specus praebent : conceptual enim spiritual exlialant : quod... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - Natural history - 1822 - 762 pages
...abounding with caverns, crevices, and subterraneous rivers. Nature, in it's uniform progress, every where suggests the same ideas of the causes of earthquakes,...of wells and caverns * is repeated in the New World * In pateis est remedium, qaale et crebri specus prebenl : conceptual enim spiritual exhalant : qnod... | |
 | Josiah Conder - Voyages and travels - 1830 - 360 pages
...abounding with caverns, crevices, and subterraneous rivers. Nature, in its uniform progress, every where suggests the same ideas of the causes of earthquakes,...subterraneous explosions. What a great Roman naturalist (Pliny) has said of the utility of wells and caverns, is repeated in the New World by the most ignorant... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - Natural history - 1852 - 536 pages
...from the agitated earth ; and that, when gaseous emanations and vapours are observed, they oftener accompany or follow, than precede the shocks. This...effect of the subterraneous explosions. What a great Eoman naturalist has said of the utility of wells and caverns* is repeated in the New World by the... | |
 | Francis Fisher Broune - 1869 - 420 pages
...forgetting the measure of his strength, pretends to diminish the effect of the subterraneous explosion. What a great Roman naturalist has said of the utility...World by the most ignorant Indians of Quito, when they snow travelers the guaicos, or crevices of Pichincha. The subterranean noise, so frequent during earthquakes,... | |
 | John Platts - Curiosities and wonders - 1876 - 986 pages
...abounding with caverns, crevices, and subterraneous rivers. Nature, in its uniform progress, every where suggests the same ideas of the causes of earthquakes,...diminish the effect of the subterraneous explosions. - J EFFECTS OF AN EABTITQUAKE.— Page 499. The engraving represents the great earthquake of 1755,... | |
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Similar phenomena were observed in ancient times by the inhabitants of those parts of Greece and Asia Minor abounding with caverns, crevices, and subterraneous rivers. Nature, in her uniform progress, everywhere suggests the same ideas of the causes of... 
