 | Thomas Dick - 1838 - 426 pages
...Insulated mountains, which rise from plains nearly level, like a sugar loaf placed on a table, and which may be supposed to present an appearance somewhat...upright staff when placed opposite to the sun ; and their heights can be calculated from the length of their shadows. The heights and the length of the... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1838 - 444 pages
...Insulated, mountains^ which rise from plains nearly level, like a sugar loaf placed on a table, and which may be supposed to present an appearance somewhat similar to Mount Etna or the peak of Teneritte. The shadows of these mountains, in certain phases of the moon, are as distinctly perceived... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1847 - 416 pages
...Insulated mmtnlains, which rise from plains nearly level, like a sugar loaf placed on a table, and which may be supposed to present an appearance somewhat...as distinctly perceived as the shadow of an upright staffwhen placed opposite to the sun ; and their heights can be calculated from the length of their... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1848 - 472 pages
...them, than to add a few extracts from his work. The lunar mountains in general exhibit an arrangement and an aspect very different from the mountain scenery...elevated in the midst of extensive plains, would present to.a spectator on their summits magnificent views of the surrounding regions. Secondly, mountain ranges,... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1850 - 586 pages
...sugar loaf placed on a tahlc,.and which may be supposed to present an appearance somewhat simil.ir fo Mount Etna or the peak of Teneriffe. The shadows of...upright staff when placed opposite to the sun ; and their heights can be calculated from the length of their shadows. The heights and the length of the... | |
 | Richard Adams Locke, Joseph Nicolas Nicollet - 1852 - 156 pages
...Insulated mountains, which rise from plains nearly level, like a sugar-loaf placed on a table, and which may be supposed to present an appearance somewhat...upright staff when placed opposite to the sun ; and their heights can be calculated from the length of their shadows. The heights and the length of the... | |
 | William Augustus Norton - 1852 - 522 pages
...offer three marked varieties, viz : (1.) Insulated Mountain!, which rise from plains nearly level, and which may be supposed to present an appearance somewhat...an upright staff when placed opposite to the sun.* The perpendicular altitudes of some of them, as determined from the lengths of their shadows, are between... | |
 | William Augustus Norton - 1853 - 522 pages
...offer three marked varieties, viz: (1.) Insulated Mountains, which rise from plains nearly level, and which may be supposed to present an appearance somewhat similar to Mount Etna or the Peak of Tenerirfe. The shadows of these mountains, in certain phases of the moon, are as distinctly perceived... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1857 - 878 pages
...Insulated mountains, which rise from plains nearly level, like a sugar loaf placed on a table, and which may be supposed to present an appearance somewhat...upright staff when placed opposite to the sun ; and their heights can be calculated from the length of their shadows. The heights and the length of the... | |
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Insulated mountains, which rise from plains nearly level, like a sugar loaf placed on a table, and which may be supposed to present an appearance somewhat similar to Mount Etna or the peak of Teneriffe. The shadows of these mountains, in certain phases... 