 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1835 - 500 pages
...an exactly circular or cup-shaped form, foreshortened, however, into ellipses towards the limb ; but the larger have, for the most part, flat bottoms within,...true volcanic character, as it may be seen in the trater of Vesuvius, and in a map of the volcanic districts of the Campi Phlegraei, or the Puy de Dome.... | |
 | Peter Parley (pseud.) - 1837 - 406 pages
...an exactly circular or cup-shaped form, foreshortened however into ellipses towards the limbs ; but the larger have for the most part flat bottoms within, from which rises centrically a small, steep, conical hill. They offer, in short, in its highest perfection, the true... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 370 pages
...bottoms within, from which rises, in the ASTRONOMY. centre, a small, steep, conical hill. They offer, in its highest perfection, the true volcanic character, as it may be seen in the crater of Vesuvius. In some of the principal ones, decided marks of volcanic stratification, arising from successive deposits... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 344 pages
...part, flat bottoms within, from which rises, in the centre, a small, steep, Conical hill. They offer, in its highest perfection, the true volcanic character, as it may be seen in the crater of Vesuvius. In some of the principal ones, decided marks of volcanic stratification, arising from successive deposits... | |
 | 1847 - 490 pages
...south-west, they sink in gentle declivity to the plains. Sir J. Herschel informs us, that they oner, in its highest perfection, the true volcanic character,...as it may be seen in the crater of Vesuvius; and in some of the principal ones, decisive marks of volcanic stratification, arising from successive deposits... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1849 - 672 pages
...an exactly circular or cup-shaped form, foreshortened, however, into ellipses towards the limb ; but the larger have for the most part flat bottoms within,...volcanic character, as it may be seen in the crater of the Vesuvius, and in a map of the volcanic districts of the Campi Phlegrffii* or the Puy de Dome, but... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1849 - 630 pages
...an exactly circular or cup-shaped form, foreshortened, however, into ellipses toward the limb ; but the larger have for the most part flat bottoms within, from which rises centrally a small, sleep, conical hill. They offer, in short, in its highest perfection, the true volcanic character,... | |
 | 1851 - 614 pages
...part, flat bottoms within, from which rises, in the centre, a small, steep, conical hill. They ofler, in its highest perfection, the true volcanic character, as it may be seen in the crater of Vesuvius. In some of the principal ones, decided marks of volcanic stratification, arising from successive deposits... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1852 - 372 pages
...bottoms within, from which rises, in the ASTRONOMY. centre, a small, steep, conical hill. They offer, in its highest perfection, the true volcanic character, as it may be seen in the crater of Vesuvius. In some of the principal ones, decided marks of volcanic stratification, arising from successive deposits... | |
 | William Williams - 1855 - 396 pages
...and apparently of a decided alluvial character." He also remarks that " the lunar mountains offer, in its highest perfection, the true volcanic character,...as it may be seen in the crater of Vesuvius. And in some of the principal ones, decisive marks of volcanic stratification, arising from successive deposits... | |
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... the limb ; but the larger have for the most part flat bottoms within, from which rises centrally a small, steep, conical hill. They offer, in short, in its highest perfection the true volcanic character, as it may be seen in the crater of Vesuvius... 
