Puffs of smoke, as black as can possibly be imagined, succeeded one another hastily, and accompanied the red-hot, transparent, and liquid lava, interrupting its splendid brightness here and there by patches of the darkest hue. Within these purls of smoke,... Familiar lectures on scientific subjects - Page 17by sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1867Full view - About this book
| John Adams - 1816 - 346 pages
...that of Vesuvius itself, which rises perpendicularly near 3700 feet above the level of the sea. Pull's of smoke, as black as can possibly be imagined, succeeded...its splendid brightness here and there by patches of (he darkest hue. Within these puffs of smoke, at the very moment of their emission from the crater,... | |
| Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - 1818 - 590 pages
...Vesuvius itself, which, as you know, rises perpendicularly near 3700 feet above the level of the sea*. Puffs of smoke, as black as can possibly be imagined,...there by patches of the darkest hue. Within these purls of smoke, at the very moment of their emission from the crater, I could perceive a bright, but... | |
| Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 768 pages
...height of 10,000 feet, (nearly two miles,) while pud's of the blackest smoke accompanied the red-hot lava, interrupting its splendid brightness here and there by patches of the darkest hue. The lava was parti}' directed by the wind towards Ottainano, on which so thick a shower of ashes, blended... | |
| Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1823 - 512 pages
...height of 10,000 feet, (nearly two miles,) while puffs of the blackest smoke accompanied the red-hot lava, interrupting its splendid brightness here and there by patches of the darkest hue. The lava was partly directed by the wind 'towards Ottojano, on which so thick a shower of ashes, blended... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 878 pages
...rise, and, gradually increasing, arrived at last at the amazing height of 10,000 feet and upwards. Puffs of smoke, as black as can possibly be imagined,...Within these puffs of smoke, at the very moment of emission, a bright but pale electrical fire v;as observed playing briskly about in zig-zag lines. The... | |
| James Bell - 1832 - 622 pages
...to rise, and gradually mcreasing, arrived at last at the amazing height of 10,000 feet and upwards. Puffs of smoke, as black as can possibly be imagined,...red-hot, transparent, and liquid lava, interrupting iu splendid brightness here and there by patches of the darkest hue : within these puffs of smoke,... | |
| 1832 - 858 pages
...height of 10,000 feet (nearly two miles,) while puffs of the blackest smoke accompanied the red-hot lava, interrupting its splendid brightness here and there by patches of the darkest hue. The lava was partly directed by the wind towards Ottainano, on which so thick a shower of ashes, blended... | |
| Andrew Thomson - 1835 - 302 pages
...height of 10,000 feet, (nearly two miles,) while puffs of the blackest smoke accompanied the red-hot lava, interrupting its splendid brightness here and there by patches of the darkest hue. The lava was partly directed by the wind towards Ottaiano, on which so thick a shower of ashes, blended... | |
| William Clarke (architect.) - 1836 - 354 pages
...three times that of Vesuvius itself, which rises 3700 feet perpendicular above the level of the sea. " Puffs of smoke, as black as can possibly be imagined,...succeeded one another hastily, and accompanied the red, transparent, and liquid lava, intercepting its splendid brightness here and there by patches of... | |
| William Clarke (architect.) - 1836 - 358 pages
...three times that of Vesuvius itself, which rises 3700 feet perpendicular above the level of the sea. " Puffs of smoke, as black as can possibly be imagined,...succeeded one another hastily, and accompanied the red, transparent, and liquid lava, intercepting its splendid brightness here and there by patches of... | |
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