 ... at Naples. In an instant, a fountain of liquid transparent fire began to rise, and gradually increasing, arrived at so amazing a height as to strike every one who beheld it with the most awful astonishment. I shall scarcely...  Familiar lectures on scientific subjects - Page 17by sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1867Full view - About this book
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1857 - 796 pages
...such force as to shake Portici, Torre del Greco, and Torre dell' Annunziata, followed, and then in an instant a fountain of liquid transparent fire began...arrived at so amazing a height as to strike every beholder with the most awful astonishment. The height of this stupendous column of fire could not be... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1857 - 892 pages
...a degree, that the windows were broken and the walls rent by the concussion of the air; and, in an instant, a fountain of liquid transparent fire began to rise, and, gradually increasing, arrived at length at the amazing height of 10,000 feet and upwards, when its blaze was (82) reflected with awful... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1863 - 552 pages
...eighth of August, " there was a loud report, which shook the houses at Portici and its neighborhood to such a degree, as to alarm the inhabitants' and...and gradually increasing, arrived at so amazing a hight, as to strike every one who beheld it with the most awful astonishment. I shall scarcely be credited... | |
 | Thomas Henry Dyer - 1867 - 626 pages
...walls cracked by the concussion of the air from that explosion, though faintly heard at Naples. In an instant, a fountain of liquid transparent fire began...with the most awful astonishment. I shall scarcely bo credited, when I assert that, to the best of my judgment, the height of this stupendous column of... | |
 | John Phillips - 1869 - 406 pages
...about 9 pm a loud report occurred, accompanied by great concussion of houses, at Portici, and in an instant a fountain of liquid transparent fire began...arrived at so amazing a height as to strike every one with awful astonishment, and Sir W. Hamilton was convinced that its height above Vesuvius was not less... | |
 | Thomas Henry Dyer - 1871 - 624 pages
...walls cracked by the concussion of the air from that explosion, though faintly heard at Naples. In an instant, a fountain of liquid transparent fire began...with the most awful astonishment. I shall scarcely bo credited, when I assert that, to the best of my judgment, the height of this stupendous column of... | |
 | John Platts - 1876 - 986 pages
...the concussion of the air on this occasion, though the noise was but faintly heard at Naples. In an instant, a fountain of liquid transparent fire began to rise, and, gradually increasing, arrived at last to the amazing height of ten thousand feet and upwards. Puffs of smoke, as black as can possibly... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1872 - 854 pages
...walls cracked by the concussion of the air from that explosion, though faintly heard » Naples. In an instant, a fountain of liquid transparent fire began to rise, and, gradually increasuKi • It is a matter of doubt whether the mass &c. which covers Pompeii was discharged from... | |
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