| E. Polehamton - 1815 - 470 pages
...projected iir btauliful curves, and the spray which, fell from them, caught by a succeeding jet, was hurried away still higher than it had been perhaps...velocity, and those which escaped uninterrupted terminated m sharp points, and lost themselves in the air. The eruption, changing its form at every instant»... | |
| Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 472 pages
...spray which fell from them, caught by a succeeding jet, was huiried away still liiglier than it bad been perhaps before. The jets were made with inconceivable...those which escaped uninterrupted terminated in sharp pomts, and lost themselves in the air. The eruption, changing its torm at every instant* aii'l blending... | |
| Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - 1818 - 492 pages
...curves, and the spray which fell from them, caught by a succeeding jet, was hurried away still Ligher than it had been perhaps before. The jets were made...terminated in sharp points, and lost themselves in the air. The eruption, changing its form at every instant. and blending variously with the clouds of steam that... | |
| 1818 - 384 pages
...of a quadrant, the greatest elevation to which the jets of water were thrown to be ninety-six feet. The jets were made with inconceivable velocity ; and...those which escaped uninterrupted, terminated in sharp gmiuts, and lost themselves in the air. The eruption, changmg its form at every instant, and blending:... | |
| Mrs. Jamieson (Frances Thurtle) - 1820 - 538 pages
...minute, and sometimes not a few seconds in duration. The jets were made with inconceivable Telocity, and those which escaped uninterrupted terminated in sharp points, and lost themselves in the air. The eruption, changing its form at every instant, continued for ten or twelve minutes; the water then... | |
| Edward Polehampton - 1821 - 462 pages
...projected in beautiful curves, and the spray which fell from them, caught by a succeeding jet, was hurried away still higher than it had been perhaps...terminated in sharp points, and lost themselves in the air. The eruption, changing its form at every instant, and blending variously with the clouds of steam that... | |
| 1849 - 604 pages
...projected in beautiful curves, and the spray which fell from them, caught by a succeeding jet, was hurried away still higher than it had been, perhaps,...basin, and the edges of the streams running out of 240 241 it, are said to be remarkably beautiful, resembling in shape the heads of cauliflowers, of extremely... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1797 - 612 pages
...beautiful curves, .nnd ;he fpray which Ml from them, caught by a fucceeding jet, was hurried away ftill higher than it had been perhaps before. ' The jets were made with inconceivable velocity, and tho(e which efcaped uninterrupted terminuied in ftiarp points, and loft themltlves in the air. The... | |
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