 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 428 pages
...immediately preceding, taking 6w minutes to flow, and as many to ebb, till the water was entirely settled. The greatest perpendicular height of this swell was two feet four inches. A still more remarkable phenomenon attending the earthquake in this lake was, that a large stone lying... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1837 - 568 pages
...Britain, was remarkable. At Loch Lomond in Scotland, for example, the water, without the least apparent cause, rose against its banks, and then subsided below...It is said that the movement of this earthquake was undulatory, and that it travelled at the rate of twenty miles a minute, its velocity being calculated... | |
 | 1844 - 498 pages
...its bank with great rapidity, then subsided far below the usual level; it rose again, and so forth. The greatest perpendicular height of this swell was two feet four inches. A large stone, lying at some distance from the shore, but in such shallow water that it could easily... | |
 | 1850 - 912 pages
...aminutc—1750feet per second; its effects were felt in Scotland. 'At Loch Lomond the water,without any apparent cause, rose against its banks, and then subsided below its usual level: the greatest height of the swell was two feet four inches. In this instance, it seems most probable that the amplitude... | |
 | 1851 - 474 pages
...feet per second; its effects were felt in Scotland. " At Loch Lomond, the water, without any apparent cause, rose against its banks, and then subsided below its usual level: the greatest height of the swell was two feet four inches. In this instance it seems most probable that the amplitude... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1853 - 882 pages
...Britain, was remarkable. At Loch Lomond, in Scotland, for example, the water, without the least apparent cause, rose against its banks, and then subsided below...level. The greatest perpendicular height of this swell WM two feet four inches. It is said that the movement of this earthquake was undulatory, and that it... | |
 | Treasury - 1853 - 276 pages
...elevation of the bottom of the ocean.) In about a minute this the usual level; it rose again, and so forth. The greatest perpendicular height of this swell was two feet four inches. A large stone, lying at some distance from the shore, but in such shallow water that it could easily... | |
 | Friedrich Otto Froembling - 1866 - 438 pages
...Britain was remarkable. At Loch Lomond, in Scotland, for example, the water, without the least apparent cause, rose against its banks, and then subsided below...It is said that the movement of this earthquake was undulatory, and that it travelled at the rate of twenty miles a minute. A great wave swept over the... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 pages
...in Great Britain was remarkable. At Loch Lomond, in Scotland, the water, without the least apparent cause, rose against its banks and then subsided below...of this swell was two feet four inches. It is said the movement of the earthquake was undulatory, and that it travelled at the rate of twenty miles a... | |
 | William Lawson (F.R.G.S.) - 1874 - 416 pages
...the Alps, on the coast of Sweden, in Canada, the West Indies, and Morocco. In Loch Lomond the water rose against its banks and then subsided below its usual level. The hot springs at Tb'plitz, in Germany, dried up, and then again returned, inundating everything with... | |
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cause, rose against its banks, and then subsided below its usual level. The greatest perpendicular height of this swell was two feet four inches. It is said that the movement of this earthquake was 
