| Jean André Luc - 1809 - 456 pages
...rock once detached, become instruments " of further destruction, and make a part of the •*' powerful artillery, with which the ocean assails the '" bulwarks of the land: they are impelled against " the rocks, from which they break off other frag" ments, and the whole are thus ground against one " another;... | |
| Jean André Luc - 1810 - 444 pages
...detached, become instruments of farther " destruction, and make a part of the powerful ar" tillery wjth which the ocean assails the bulwarks " of the land : they are impelled against the rocks, " from which they break off other fragments, and "the whole are thus ground against one another;... | |
| William Thomas Brande - 1821 - 666 pages
...new and powerful instruments of destruction ; they roll down the precipices, wearing themselves and the surface that bears them, and, if near the sea,...bulwarks of the land ;" they are impelled against th£ coasts, from which they break off other fragments : and the whole thus ground against each other,... | |
| William Thomas Brande - 1821 - 806 pages
...precipices, wearing themsefres and the surface that bears them, and, if near the sea, or carried thithv by rivers, they become " a part of the mighty artillery...from which they break off other fragments : and the whoje thus ground against each other, whatever be their hardness, are reduced to gravel ; the smooth... | |
| John Playfait - 1822 - 668 pages
...fragments of rock once detached, become instruments of further destruction, and make a part of the powerful artillery with which the ocean assails the bulwarks of the land : they are impelled against the rocks, from which they break off other fragments, and the whole are thus ground against one another... | |
| Jean André Luc - 1831 - 522 pages
...fragments of rock once detached become instruments of farther destruction, and make a part of the powerful artillery with which the ocean assails the bulwarks of the land: they are impelled agajnst the rocks, from which they break off other fragments, and the whole are thus ground against... | |
| Samuel Sidwell Randall - 1846 - 216 pages
...of rock, when detached, become instruments of further destruction, and make a part of the powerful artillery with which the ocean assails the bulwarks of the land ; they are impelled against the rocks, from which they break off other fragments, and the whole are thus ground against one another... | |
| 1854 - 606 pages
...themselves and the surface that bears them ; and if near the sea, or carried thither by rivers, they become part of the mighty artillery with which the ocean...whatever be their hardness, are reduced to gravel or shingle, the smooth surface and rounded masses of which are convincing proofs of the manner in which... | |
| Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 484 pages
...fragments of rock once detached, become instruments of further destruction, and make a part of the powerful artillery with which the ocean assails the bulwarks of the land: they are impelled against the rocks, from which they break off other fragments, and the whole are thus ground against one another... | |
| Oliver J. Thatcher - 2004 - 466 pages
...fragments of rock once detached, become instruments of further destruction, and make a part of the powerful artillery with which the ocean assails the bulwarks of the land : they are impelled against the rocks, from which they break off other fragments, and the whole are thus ground against one another;... | |
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