 | Daniel Clarke Eddy - 1852 - 538 pages
...hight in the form of a trunk, which extended itself at the top into a sort of branches, occasioned, I imagine, either by a sudden gust of air that impelled...sometimes bright and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This extraordinary phenomenon excited my uncle's philosophical... | |
 | Ruins - 1852 - 464 pages
...height in the form of a trunk, which extended itself at the top into a sort of branches ; occasioned, I imagine, either by a sudden gust of air that impelled...sometimes bright and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This extraordinary phenomenon excited my uncle's philosophical... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 332 pages
...height in the form of a trunk, which extended itself at the top into a sort of branches ; occasioned, I imagine, either by a sudden gust of air that impelled...pressed back again by its own weight, expanded in this summer ; it appeared sometimes bright and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was either more * A promontory... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1854 - 740 pages
...height in the form of a trunk, which extended itself at the top into a sort of branches ; occasioned, I imagine, either by a sudden gust of air that impelled it, the force of which decreased as it advanced upward ; or the cloud itself b^ing pressed back again by its own weight, expanded in this manner. It... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 650 pages
...height in tho form of a trunk, which extended itself at the top into a sort of branches ; occasioned, I imagine, either by a sudden gust of air that impelled...sometimes dark and spotted, as it was either more or less imprcg* uated with earth and cinders. This extraordinary phenomenon excited my uncle's philosophical... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 358 pages
...height in the form of a trunk, which extended itself at the top into a sort of branches ; occasioned, I imagine, either by a sudden gust of air that impelled...own weight, expanded in this manner ; it appeared sonwtimes bright and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was either more or less impreg-. 204 HALF-HOURS... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1858 - 496 pages
...at the top into the form of branches ; occasioned, I imagine, cither by a sudden gust of air which impelled it, the force of which decreased as it advanced...sometimes bright, and sometimes dark and spotted, as it became more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This was a surprising phenomenon, and it deserved,... | |
 | Daniel Clarke Eddy - 1859 - 510 pages
...hight in the form of a trunk, which extended itself at the top into a sort of branches, occasioned, I imagine, either by a sudden gust of air that impelled...sometimes bright and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This extraordinary phenomenon excited my uncle's philosophical... | |
 | Fredrika Bremer - 1880 - 492 pages
...above like branches, occasioned, I imagine, either by a sudden gust of air, which impelled it, and the force of which decreased as it advanced upwards, or the cloud, being pressed down again by its own weight, expanded in this manner. It appeared sometimes white and... | |
 | Fredrika Bremer - 1861 - 450 pages
...impelled it, and the force of which decreased as it advanced upward ; or the cloud, being pressed down again by its own weight, expanded in this manner. It appeared sometimes white, and sometimes dark and spotted, as it became more or less impregnated with earth and cinders.... | |
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... which extended itself at the top into a sort of branches, occasioned, I imagine, either by a sudden gust of air that impelled it, the force of which decreased as it advanced upwards, or the cloud itself, being pressed back again by its own weight,... 
