 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 308 pages
...rise at once, from the plains, and raise their peaked summits high in air ; while projecting crags spring from their rugged flanks, and, threatening...unconnected fragments, which time seems to have detached N 2 from the parent mass. In some parts, the perpendicular elevation of the mountains is above four... | |
 | John Hubbard Wilkins - 1825 - 151 pages
...mountains are supposed to be volcanic. Dr. Brewster, speaking of the Moon, says, " Her mountainous .-coucry bears a stronger resemblance to the towering sublimity,...which time seems to have detached from their parent maes ; and when we examine the rents and ravines which accompany the over-hanging cliffs, we expect... | |
 | 1826 - 404 pages
...while THE MOON. 125 projecting crags spring from their rugged flanks, and, threatening the vallies below, seem to bid defiance to the laws of gravitation....the base of these frightful eminences are strewed loose and unconnected fragments, which time seems to have detached from their parent mass ; and when... | |
 | William Lincoln, Christopher Columbus Baldwin - 1826 - 906 pages
...height in the air, while projecting crags spring from their rugged flanks, and, threatening the vallies below, seem to bid defiance to the laws of gravitation....the base of these frightful eminences are strewed loose and unconnected fragments, which time seems to have detached from their parent mass ; and when... | |
 | John Hubbard Wilkins - 1829 - 202 pages
...the plains, arid raise their peaked summits to an immense height in the air, while projecting crags spring from their rugged flanks, and threatening the...the base of these frightful eminences, are strewed nnmerofls loose and unconnected fragments, which time seems to have detached from their parent mass... | |
 | John Vose - 1834 - 230 pages
...the plains, and raise their peaked summits to an immense height in the air, while projecting crags spring from their rugged flanks, and, threatening...examine the rents and ravines, which accompany the ever-changing cliffs, we expect every moment that they are to be torn from their bases, and that the... | |
 | Thomas Spofford - 1835 - 84 pages
...height ; while projecting crags spring from their rugged flanks, and threatening the valleys belowj seem to bid defiance to the laws of gravitation. Around...of these frightful eminences are strewed numerous fragments, which time seems to have detached from their parent mass; and when we examine the rents... | |
 | John Hubbard Wilkins - 1836 - 214 pages
...air, while projecting crags spring from their rugged flanks, and threatening the valleys below, seern to bid defiance to the laws of gravitation.. Around...numerous loose and unconnected fragments, which time seema to have detached from their parent mass ; and when we examine the rents and ravines which accompany... | |
 | Peter Parley (pseud.) - 1837 - 406 pages
...resemblance to the lowering sublimity and terrific ruggedness of the Alpine regions, (the Swiss Alps,) than to the tamer inequalities of less elevated countries....fragments, which time seems to have detached from the apparent mass ; and, when we examine the rents and ravines which accompany the overhanging cliffs,... | |
 | Leonard Dunnell Gale - 1838 - 280 pages
...projecting sides, and seem on the eve of being precipitated into the tremendous chasm below. CXLI. Around the base of these frightful eminences, are...which time seems to have detached from their parent CXXXVIII. Why cannot the Moon have any sensible diversity of seasons 1 What then may we infer to be... | |
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... spring from their rugged flanks, and threatening the valleys below, seem to bid defiance to the laws of gravitation. Around the base of these frightful eminences, are strewed numerous loose and unconnected fragments, which time seems to have detached... 
