 ... the course of the present rivers and the actual shape of our hills and valleys, are they only of high antiquity when contrasted with the brief space of human annals ? May they not be like Vesuvius and Etna, which, although they have been adding to...  The Sanitary Review - Page 111864Full view - About this book
 | 1864 - 348 pages
...Vesuvius and Etna, which, although they have been adding to their flanks, in the course of the last zcoo years, many a stream of lava and shower of ashes,...although their foundations are tens of thousands of yean old, they were laid at an era when the Mediterranean was already inhabited by the same species... | |
 | Henry Woodward - 1864 - 370 pages
...Vesuvius and Etna, which, although they have been adding to their flanks, in the course of the last 2000 years, many a stream of lava and shower of ashes,...dimensions from the earliest times to which we can trace back their existence ? Yet, although their foundations are tens of thousands of years old, they were... | |
 | 1864 - 526 pages
...Vesuvius and Etna, which, although they have been adding to their flanks, in the course of the last 2000 years, many a stream of lava and shower of ashes,...height and dimensions from the earliest times to which wecan trace back their existence ? Yet although their foundations are tens of thousands of years old,... | |
 | 1864 - 504 pages
...Vesuvius and Etna, which, although they have been adding to their flanks, in the course of the last 2000 years, many a stream of lava and shower of ashes,...the same as they now are in height and dimensions frcm the earliest times to which we can trace back their existence ? Yet although their foundations... | |
 | James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1864 - 876 pages
...antiquity when contrasted with the brief space of human annals ;" for, " though their foundations were tens of thousands of years old, they were laid at an era when the Mediterranean was already inhabited by the same species of marine shells as those with which it is now peopled." The probable... | |
 | 1864 - 848 pages
...antiquity when contrasted with the brief space of human annals ;" for, " though their foundations were tens of thousands of years old, they were laid at an era when the Mediterranean was already inhabited by the same species of marine shells as those with which it is now peopled." The probable... | |
 | 1865 - 400 pages
...Vesuvius and Etna, which, although they have been adding to their flanks in the course of the last 2000 years many a stream of lava and shower of ashes, were...dimensions from the earliest times to which we can trace back their existence? Yet although their foundations are tens of thousands of years old, they were... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1865 - 816 pages
...Vesuvius and Etna, which, although they have been adding to their flanks, in the course of the last 2000 years many a stream of lava and shower of ashes, were...dimensions from the earliest times to which we can trace back their existence ? Yet although their foundations are tens of thousands of years old, they were... | |
 | 1865 - 388 pages
...Vesuvius and Etna, which, although they have been adding to their flanks, in the course of the last 2,000 years, many a stream of lava and shower of ashes,...still mountains very much the same as they now are in hight and dimensions from the earliest times to which we can trace back their existence ? Yet although... | |
 | 1866 - 368 pages
...Vesuvius and Etna, which, although they have been adding to their flanks, in the course of the last 2,000 years, many a stream of lava and shower of ashes, were still mountams very much the same as they now are in hight and dimensions from the earliest times to which... | |
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