 | John Lee Comstock - 1837 - 396 pages
...sides of the river Saco, innumerable rocks and stone, many of them of sufficient size to fill a common apartment, were detached, and in their descent swept...similar had occurred. One of these moving masses was af.erwards found to have slid three miles, consisting of rocks, earth, trees, &c., with an average... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1837 - 568 pages
...slides at former times, and the growth of the forest on the flanks of the hills clearly showed that fur a long interval nothing similar had occurred. One...masses was afterwards found to have slid three miles, with an average breadth of a quarter of n mile. The natural excavations commenced generally in a trench... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - 1841 - 398 pages
...sides of the river Saco, innumerable rocks and stone, many of them of sufficient size to fill a common apartment, were detached, and in their descent swept...similar had occurred. One of these moving masses was a/.erwards found to have slid three miles, consisting of rocks, earth, trees, &c., with an average... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1872 - 714 pages
...the memory of man, and the growth of the forest on the very spots now devastated clearly showed that for a long interval nothing similar had occurred....masses was afterwards found to have slid three miles, with an average breadth of a quarter of a mile. The natural excavations commenced generally in a trench... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1875 - 702 pages
...both sides of the river Saco, innumerable rocks and stones, many of sufficient size to fill a common apartment, were detached, and in their descent swept...and frightful ruin, forest:?, shrubs, and the earth which sustained them. Although there are numerous indications on the steep sides of these hills of... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - 1875 - 610 pages
...sides of the river Saco, innumerable rocks and stones, many of sufficient size to fill a common room, were detached, and in their descent swept down before them in one promiscuous and frightful ruin, forests, shrubs, and the earth which sustained them. Forests of spruce fir and hemlock were prostrated... | |
 | smith elder - 1877 - 802 pages
...the memory of man, and the growth of the forest on the very spots now devastated clearly showed that for a long interval nothing similar had occurred....masses was afterwards found to have slid three miles, with an average breadth of a quarter of a mile." At the base of the vast chasms formed by these natural... | |
 | 1877 - 826 pages
...the metnory of man, and the growth of the forest on the very spots now devastated clearly showed that for a long interval nothing similar had occurred....masses was afterwards found to have slid three miles, with an average breadth of a quarter of a mile." At the base of the vast chasms formed by these natural... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1877 - 802 pages
...the memory of man, and the growth of the forest on the very spots now devastated clearly showed that for a long interval nothing similar had occurred....masses was afterwards found to have slid three miles, with an average breadth of a ' quarter of a mile." At the base of the vast chasms formed by these natural... | |
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Although there are numerous indications on the steep sides of these hills of former slides of the same kind, yet no tradition had been handed down of any similar catastrophe within the memory of man, and the growth of the forest on the very spots now... 