 | Bartholomew Prescot - 1822 - 292 pages
...shock upon the earth: the axis and motion of rotation changed, the waters abandoning their ancient position to precipitate themselves towards the new...of men and animals drowned in a universal deluge," (would not the whole in such case be drowned?) " or destroyed by the violence of the shock given to... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1840 - 412 pages
...upon the Earth — the axis and motion of rotation changed — the waters abandoning their ancient position to precipitate themselves towards the new...monuments of human industry reversed — such are the effects which the shock of a comet would produce." " We see then why the Ocean has abandoned the highest... | |
 | James Thomson - 1847 - 504 pages
...precipitate themselves towards the new equator ; the greater part of man and animals drowned in an universal deluge, or destroyed by the violence of...shock given to the terrestrial globe ; whole species annihilated ; all the monuments of art reversed : such are the disasters which the shock of a comet... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
...shock upon the earth ; the axis and motion of rotation changed ; the waters abandoning their ancient position to precipitate themselves towards the new...shock given to the terrestrial globe ; whole species annihilated ; all the monuments of human industry reversed ; such are the disasters which a shock of... | |
 | François Arago - 1848 - 108 pages
...rush violently toward the new equator ; a great part of the human and animal races drowned in this universal deluge, or destroyed by the violence of the shock given to the terrestrial globe ; entire species annihilated : all the courses of human industry confounded ; — such would be the... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1850 - 416 pages
...upon the Earth — the axis and motion of rotation changed — the waters abandoning their ancient position to precipitate themselves towards the new...monuments of human industry reversed — such are the effects which the. shock of a comet would produce."—. " We see then why the Ocean has abandoned the... | |
 | 1854 - 616 pages
...ancient position, to precipitate themselves toward the new equator ; the greater part of men and animait drowned in a universal deluge, or destroyed by the...shock given to the terrestrial globe; whole species annihilated; all the monuments of human industry reversed ; such are the disasters which a shock of... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 pages
...shock upon the earth j the axis and motion of rotation changed ; the waters abandoning their ancient position to precipitate themselves towards the new...shock given to the terrestrial globe ; whole species annihilated ; all the monuments of human industry reversed ; such are the disasters which a shock of... | |
 | 1883 - 800 pages
...shock upon the earth — the axis and motion of rotation changed, the waters abandoning their ancient position to precipitate themselves towards the new...universal deluge, or destroyed by the violence of a shock given to the terrestrial globe, whole species destroyed, all the monuments of human industry... | |
 | Gerrit L. Verschuur - 1997 - 250 pages
...of rotation changed; the waters abandoning their ancient position to precipitate themselves toward the new equator; the greater part of men and animals...shock given to the terrestrial globe; whole species annihilated; all the monuments of human industry reversed; such are the disasters which a shock of... | |
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It is easy to represent the effect of such a shock upon the Earth — the axis and motion of rotation changed — the waters abandoning their ancient position to precipitate themselves towards the new equator — the greater part of men and animals drowned... 