 | 1812 - 352 pages
...appear less remote than they really are. The atmosphere was remarkably clear and serene ; but we saw none of those clouds of smoke, which, by some writers,...from the surface of lake Asphaltites, nor from any neighboring mountain. Every thing about it was, in the highest degree, grand and awful. Its desolate,... | |
 | Edward Daniel Clarke - 1814 - 428 pages
...appear less remote than they really are.* The atmosphere was remarkably clear and serene; but we saw none of those clouds of smoke, which, by some writers,...exhale from the surface of lake Asphaltites, nor from auy neighbouring .mountain. Every thing about it was, in the highest degree, grand and awful. Its desolate,... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 768 pages
...appear less remote than they really are. The atmosphere was remarkably clear and serene; but we saw none of those clouds of smoke, which, by some writers,...concerning it by the inhabitants of the country, who all ,spt'ak of it with terror, seeming to shrink from the narrative of its deceitful allurements •and... | |
 | Edward Daniel Clarke - 1823 - 490 pages
...appear less remote than they really are*. The atmosphere was remarkably clear and serene ; but we saw none of those clouds of smoke which, by some writers,...from the surface of Lake Asphaltites, nor from any aeighbouring mountain. Every thing about it was, in the highest degree, grand and awful. Its desolate,... | |
 | Henry Teonge - 1825 - 364 pages
...who visited this extraordinary lake in his travels through the Holy Land in the year 1801, says, " Every thing about it was in the highest degree grand and awful. Its desolate though majestic features are well suited to the tales related of it." 58 It has been doubted by sohie... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1825 - 630 pages
...nearly nineteen. A profound silence, awful as death, hangs over the lake : and " its desolate though majestic features are well suited to the tales related concerning it by die inhabitants of the country, who аЦ speak of it with terror."4 3. The Great Seer, mentioned in... | |
 | 1826 - 298 pages
...appear less remote than they really are. The atmosphere was remarkably clear and serene; but we saw none of those clouds of smoke which by some writers...Asphaltites, nor from any neighbouring mountain. Every VOL. II. Q thing about it was in the highest degree grand and awful. Its desolate, although majestic... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1832 - 1030 pages
...appear less remote than they really are. The atmosphère was remarkably clear and serene ; but we saw none of those clouds of smoke, which, by some writers, are said to exhale from the surface of the lake, nor from any neighbouring mountain. Every thing about it wag in the highest degree grand... | |
 | Andrew Thomson - 1835 - 302 pages
...appear less remote than they really are. The atmosphere was remarkably clear and serene ; but we saw none of those clouds of smoke, which, by some .writers, are said to exhale from the surface of Lake Ast phaltites, nor from any neighbouring mountain. Every thing about it was, in the highest degree,... | |
 | George Robert Gleig - 1835 - 326 pages
...appear less remote than they really are. The atmosphere was remarkably clear and serene ; but we saw none of those clouds of smoke which, by some writers, are said -to exhale from the surface of the lake Asphaltites, nor from any neighbouring mountain. Every thing about it was, in the highest... | |
| |
The atmosphere was remarkably clear and serene; but we saw none of those clouds of smoke which by some writers are said to exhale from the surface of Lake Asphaltites, nor from any neighbouring mountain. 
