 | Maria Hack - 1839 - 464 pages
...the memorable earthquake at Lisbon in the year 1755. A subterraneous noise like thunder was heard, and immediately afterwards a violent shock threw down the greater part of the city. Sixty thousand persons are said to have perished in a few minutes ! You may imagine the consternation... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1842 - 964 pages
...festival-day. on which all the churches were lighted up, and crowded with devotees), a sound like thai of thunder was heard under ground, and immediately...afterwards a violent shock threw down the greater part of the city, destroying about 00,000 human beings In six minutes ! The sea first retired and laid the... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1854 - 870 pages
...For other particulars, see Phil. Trans. vol. liii. [ Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. x. pp. 351, 438. has so tremendous an earthquake occurred in modern...November, 1755, at Lisbon. A sound of thunder was heard underground, and immediately afterwards a violent shock threw down the greater part of that city. Tn... | |
 | James Stanley Grimes - 1858 - 178 pages
...make their own application of the principles to the facts as related. " Lisbon Earthquake. -—- In no part of the volcanic region of Southern Europe...afterwards a violent shock threw down the greater part of the city. In the course of six minutes, sixty thousand persons perished. The sea first retired, and"... | |
 | James Stanley Grimes - 1858 - 180 pages
...to make their own application of the principles to the facts as related. "Lisbon Earthquake. — In no part of the volcanic region of Southern Europe...immediately afterwards a violent shock threw down ttft greater part of the city. In the course of six minutes, sixty thousand persons perished. The sea... | |
 | Friedrich Otto Froembling - 1866 - 438 pages
...gold.' Murchison. 116 THE GREAT EARTHQUAKE OF LISEON IN 1755. THE GREAT EARTHQUAKE OF LISBON IN 1755. In no part of the volcanic region of Southern Europe...November 1755 at Lisbon. A sound of thunder was heard underground, and immediately afterwards a violent shock threw down the greater part of that city. In... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1868 - 876 pages
...For other particulars, see Phil. Trans, vol. liii. has so tremendous an earthquake occurred in modem times, as that which began on the 1st of November, 1755, at Lisbon. A sound of thunder was heard underground, and immediately afterwards a violent shock threw down the greater part of that city. In... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 pages
...Principles of Geology, Elements of Geology, and Travels in North America. THE EARTHQUAKE AT LISBON. IN no part of the volcanic region of Southern Europe...occurred in modern times, as that which began on the 1st November, 1755, at Lisbon. A sound of thunder was heard underground, and, immediately after, a violent... | |
 | Henry Francis Blanford - 1874 - 192 pages
...which occurred at Lisbon on the ist November, 1755. A sound like that of thunder was heard underground, and immediately afterwards a violent shock threw down the greater part of the city. In the course of six minutes, sixty thousand persons perished. The destruction was much increased... | |
 | William Lawson (F.R.G.S.) - 1874 - 416 pages
...on 1st November 1755 without the least warning. A sound like that of thunder was heard underground, and immediately afterwards a violent shock threw down the greater part of the city; and in the course of about six minutes 60,000 persons perished. The sea at first retired... | |
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... city. In the course of about six minutes, sixty thousand persons perished. The sea first retired and laid the bar dry; it then rolled in, rising fifty feet above its ordinary level. 
