 | Books - 1774 - 592 pages
...whole is lighted from withoot ; fo that the fartheft extremity is plainly feen from the entrance : and the air within being agitated by the flux and reflux of the tides, is perfectly dry and wholefome, free entirely from the damp vapours with which natural caverns in general abound." — Mr.... | |
 | Thomas Pennant - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1776 - 548 pages
...precifely ; and at the fame time vary the color with a great deal of elegance, and to render it ftill more agreeable, the whole is lighted from without...flux and reflux of the tides, is perfectly dry and wholefome, free entirely from the damp vapours .with which natural caverns in general abound. " We... | |
 | History - 1778 - 630 pages
...precifely ; and at the fame time vary the colour with a great deal of elegance, and to render it ftill more agreeable, the whole is lighted from without...plainly feen from, without, and the air within being * Staffa is taken notice of by Buchanan, but in the flighteft manner ; and among the thoufands who... | |
 | Uno von Troil, Joseph Banks - Geology - 1780 - 440 pages
...precifely, and at the fame time vary the colour with a great deal of elegance ; and to render it ftill more. agreeable, the whole is lighted from without...and the air within being agitated by the flux and T reflux reflux of the tides, is perfectly dry and wholefomc, free entirely from the damp vapours with... | |
 | Uno von Troil - Iceland - 1780 - 444 pages
...precifely, and at the fame time vary the colour with a great deal of elegance ; and to render it ftill more agreeable, the whole is lighted from without ; fo that the fartheft extremity is very plainly fccn from without, and the air within being agitated by the flux and T reflux [ 29° 1 fcflux of th«... | |
 | John Knox - Fisheries - 1787 - 566 pages
...precifely ; and at the fame time vary the colour with a great deal of elegance ; and to render it Hill more agreeable, the whole is lighted from without...flux and reflux of the tides, is perfectly dry and wholefome, free entirely from the damp vapours with which natural caverns in general abound. " We alked... | |
 | 512 pages
...precifely, and at the fame time vary the colour with a great deal of elegance ; and, to render it ftill more agreeable, the whole is lighted from without : fo that the fartheft extremity is very plainly feea from without, and the air within, being agitated by the flux and reflux of the tides, is perfectly... | |
 | John Adams - World history - 1795 - 676 pages
...vary the colour, with a great deal of elegance ; and *' to render it ftill more agreeable, the whoje is lighted from ** without; fo that the fartheft extremity...within being agitated by the ** flux and reflux of the tide is perfeflly dry and wholeforre^ " free entirely from the damp and vapours with which natu" ral... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - Great Britain - 1798 - 328 pages
...the whole is lighted from without; fo that the fartbeft extremily is plainly feen from the entrance, and the air within, being agitated by the flux and reflux of the tides, is perfectly dry and wholefome." They alked the name of this beautiful cave. Said their guide, " It is the cave of Fhinn... | |
 | Faujas-de-St.-Fond (cit., Barthélemy) - Great Britain - 1799 - 388 pages
...and at the ** fame time vary the colour with a great " deal of elegance; and to render it ftill *' more agreeable, the whole is lighted from ** without...flux and *' reflux of the tides, is perfectly dry and " wholefome, free entirely from the damp 0 vapours with which natural caverns in ge^ neral abound."... | |
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... from without, and the air within, being agitated by the flux and reflux of the tides, is perfectly dry and wholefome, free entirely from the damp vapours with which natural caverns in general abound. 
