 This last bed of lava must have been brought to a state of the most perfect liquefaction, as it had filled up every crevice that was more than half an inch wide. It appeared highly glazed, and in some places we could discover small round pebbles from...  The Edinburgh Journal of Science - Page 3721826Full view - About this book
 | 1827 - 452 pages
...filled up every crevice that was more than half an inch wide. It appeared highly glazed, and in some places we could discover small round pebbles, from...hen's egg, of the same colour, and having the same polish, yet seeming to have remained solid, while the liquid lava, with which they were mixed, had... | |
 | William Ellis - 1825 - 290 pages
...from the size of a hazlenut to that of a hen's egg, of the same colour, and having the same polish, yet seeming to have remained solid, while the liquid...the ancient rock. The pile on the other side, formed by the dripping of the lava from the upper edge of the rocks, presented a striking contrast, but not... | |
 | William Ellis - 1825 - 290 pages
...filled up every crevice, that was more than half an inch wide. It appeared highly glazed, and in some places we could discover small round pebbles, from the size of a hazlenut to that of a hen's egg, of the same colour, and having the same polish, yet seeming to have... | |
 | 1826 - 460 pages
...filled up every crevice that was more than half an inch wide. It appeared highly glazed, and in some places we could discover small round pebbles from...the ancient rock. The pile on the other side, formed by the dropping of the liquid lava from the upper edge of the rocks, presented a striking contrast,... | |
 | 1826 - 446 pages
...filled up every crevice that was more than half an inch wide. It appeared highly glazed, and in some places we could discover small round pebbles, from...hen's egg, of the same colour, and having the same polish, yet seeming to have remained solid, while the liquid lava, with, which they were mixed, had... | |
 | William Ellis - 1826 - 476 pages
...filled up every crevice that was more than half an inch wide. It appeared highly glazed, and in some places we could discover small round pebbles, from the size of a hazelnut to that of a hen's egg, of the same colour, and having the same vitreous covering, yet seeming... | |
 | William Ellis - 1827 - 542 pages
...highly glazed, and in some places we could discover small round pebples, from the size of a hazel-nut to that of a hen's egg, of the same colour, and having the same vitreous cover ing, yet seeming to have remained solid, while the liquid lava, with which they were mixed, had... | |
 | 1831 - 448 pages
...a magnetic needle was, at a certain distance, set in motion by it. Many similar pieces of platina, from the size of a hazel nut to that of a hen's egg, in the collection of the Imperial Mining Academy of St Petersburg, exhibit similar properties. 5. OUzoner... | |
 | William Ellis - 1831 - 520 pages
...filled up every crevice that was more than half an inch wide. It appeared highly glazed, and in some places we could discover small round pebbles, from the size of a hazel-nut to that of a hen's egg, of the same colour, and having the same vitreous covering, yet seeming... | |
 | Luke Hebert - 1832 - 370 pages
...a magnetic needle was, at a certain distance, set in motion by it. Many similar pieces of platina, from the size of a hazel nut to that of a hen's egg, in the collection of the Imperial Mining Academy of St. Petersburg, exhibit similar properties. SUBMARINE... | |
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