| Martin Farquhar Tupper - 1857 - 508 pages
...a number of prodigious pillars of sand, at times moving with great celerity, at others staiking on with a majestic slowness : at intervals we thought they were coming in a few minutes to overwhelm us, ice. Sometimes they were broken near the middie, as if struck with a huge... | |
| James Smith (author of the Panorama of science and art.) - 1859 - 924 pages
...the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from west and to the north-west of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand...different distances, at times moving with great celerity, and at others stalking on with a majestic slo\wess; at intervals we thought they were coming i'na very... | |
| Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 pages
...sight, surely one of the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from W. to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand...times moving with great celerity, at others stalking on with a majestic slowness ; at intervals we thought they were coming in a very few minutes to overwhelm... | |
| James Bruce - 1860 - 436 pages
...sight, surely one of the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert from W. to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at one time moving with great celerity, at another stalking on with majestic slowness. At intervals we... | |
| Charles Tomlinson - 1861 - 408 pages
...world. In that vast expanse of desert, from west and to north-west of us, we saw a large number of pillars of sand at different distances, at times moving with great celerity, at others stalking on with a majestic slowness. At intervals we thought they were coming in a very few minutes to overwhelm... | |
| 1867 - 214 pages
...surely one of the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from W. and to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand...times moving with great celerity, at others stalking on with majestic slowness ; at intervals we thought they were coming in a very few minutes to overwhelm... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 1863 - 392 pages
...of the most magnificent in the world. In the vast expanse of desert, from west and to the north-west of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand...different distances, at times moving with great celerity, and at others stalking on with a majestic slowness ; at intervals we thought they were coming in a... | |
| Martin Farquhar Tupper - 1864 - 468 pages
...sight surely on* of the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert from W. to NW of us we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand, at times moving with great celerity, at others stalking on with a majestic slowness ; at intervals we... | |
| Young people - 1869 - 684 pages
...one of the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from west and to north-west of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand,...times moving with great celerity, at others stalking on with a majestic slowness. At intervals we thought they were coming in a very few minutes to overwhelm... | |
| English explorers - 1875 - 680 pages
...surely one of the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from w. and to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand...times moving with great celerity, at others stalking on with a majestic slowness ; at intervals we thought they were coming in a very few minutes to overwhelm... | |
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