 Coal mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons of most graceful foliage, flung in wild irregular profusion over every portion of its surface. The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal-black...  The Magazine of Science, and Schools of Art - Page 2031842Full view - About this book
 | 1836 - 1184 pages
...with which the galleries of these instructive coal mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons...surface. The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal-black colour of these vegetables, with the light ground work of the rock to which they are attached.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 606 pages
...with which the galleries of these instructive coal mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons...surface. The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal-black colour of these vegetables, with the light ground work of the rock to which they are attached.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 610 pages
...with which the galleries of these instructive coal mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons...surface. The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal-black colour of these vegetables, with the light ground work of the rock to which they are attached.... | |
 | Ohio. General Assembly - 1836 - 174 pages
...with which the galleries of these instructive coal mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons...graceful foliage, flung in wild, irregular profusion overy portion of its surface. The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal black color of these... | |
 | 1837 - 1040 pages
...with which the galleries of these instructive coal-mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons...surface. The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal-black colour of these vegetables with the light ground-work of the.rock to which they are attached.... | |
 | 1837
...these instructive coal-mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapeslry, enriched with festoons of most graceful foliage, flung...surface. The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal-black colour of these vegetables with the light ground-work of the rock to which they are attached.... | |
 | 1837 - 608 pages
...profusion of ex' tinct vegetable forms by which the galleries are overhung. ' The roof is covered with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched ' with festoons...profusion over every portion of its surface.' . . . ' The ' spectator feels himself transported, as if by enchantment, into ' the forests of another world. He... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1838 - 388 pages
...with which the galleries of these instructive coal-mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons...surface. The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal-black colour of these vegetables, with the light ground- work of the rock to which they are attached.... | |
 | Frederick John Francis - 1839 - 204 pages
...with which the galleries of these instructive coal-mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons...surface. The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coalblack colour of these vegetables with the light ground-work of the rock to which they are attached.... | |
 | Edmund Ruffin - 1839 - 830 pages
...enriched with festoons of most graceful li> liage, flung in wild irregular profusion over every part of its surface. The effect is heightened by the contrast...with the light ground work of the rock to which they are attached. The spectator feels himself Iransponed as by enchantment ¡mo the forests of another... | |
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