The Gallery of Nature and Art; Or a Tour Through Creation and Science ...R.N. Rose, 1821 |
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Autres éditions - Tout afficher
The Gallery of Nature and Art; Or, a Tour Through Creation and Science, Volume 2 Edward Polehampton Affichage du livre entier - 1815 |
The Gallery of Nature and Art: Or, a Tour Through Creation and Science, Volume 2 Rev. Edward Polehampton,John Mason Good Affichage du livre entier - 1818 |
Gallery of Nature and Art, Or a Tour Through Creation and Science ..., Volume 2 Edward T W. Polehampton Affichage du livre entier - 1815 |
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agitation ancient animals appears beds belemnites belonging bottom breadth buried Calabria calcareous called cave cavern chalk clay colour considerable covered Cuvier Dalmatia deep depth discovered earth earthquake east electrical elephant extends fathoms feet felt fire foot formation formed fossil four Goodmanham Grotta del Cane grotto ground half Hans Sloane height hill horns houses hundred inches inhabitants island Isle of Sheppey kind lake lake Agnano land length likewise Lincolnshire marl mephitis miles moss motion mountains nature noise observed Pachydermata peat petrifactions phænomena Phil pieces pillars plain probably quadrupeds quantity remains remarkable river rock Roman roof roots Rosarno ruins sand SECTION seems shells shock Siberia side situation soil species stalactites stone strata stratum subterraneous sulphureous surface teeth thick town Trans trees vapours vast vegetables violent whole wood yards
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Page 439 - Though the sides of this bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have resolution to walk to them, and look over into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it. Looking down from this height about a minute, gave me a violent head-ache. If the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in an equal extreme.
Page 421 - Volcano, with their smoking summits, appear under your feet ; and you look down on the whole of Sicily as on a map ; and can trace every river through all its windings, from its source to its mouth. The view is absolutely boundless on every side ; nor is there any one object, within the circle of vision, to interrupt it ; so that the sight is every where lost in the immensity ; and...
Page 98 - The mind can hardly form an idea more magnificent than such a space, supported on each side by ranges of columns; and roofed by the bottoms of those, which have been broke off in order to form it ; between the angles of which a yellow stalagmitic matter has exuded, which serves to define the angles precisely ; and at the same time vary the colour with a great deal of elegance, and to render it still more agreeable, the whole is lighted from without...
Page 440 - Ridge on the other, at the distance each of them of about five miles. This bridge is in the county of Rockbridge, to which it has given name, and affords a public and commodious passage over a valley which cannot be crossed elsewhere for a considerable distance.
Page 324 - Indeed too beautiful to be much in unison with that variety of horrors art has spread at the bottom: the noise of the forges, mills, &c. with all their vast machinery, the flames bursting from the furnaces with the burning of the coal and the smoak of the lime kilns, are altogether sublime, and would unite well with craggy and bare rocks, like St.
Page 312 - The water being then let in upon it, the cascalhao in spread abroad and continually raked up to the head of the trough, so as to be kept in constant motion. This operation is performed for the space of a quarter of an hour ; the water then begins to run clearer : having washed the earthy particles away, the gravel-like matter is raked up to the end of the trough. After the current flows away quite clear, the largest stones are thrown out, and afterwards those of inferior size ; then the whole is...
Page 423 - Keen as the north-wind sweeps the glossy snow. All is their prize. They fasten on the steed, Press him to earth, and pierce his mighty heart. Nor can the bull his awful front defend, Or shake the murdering savages away. Rapacious, at the mother's throat they fly, And tear the screaming infant from her breast.
Page 97 - Compared to this what are the cathedrals or the palaces built by men! mere models or playthings, imitations as diminutive as his works will always be when compared to those of nature. Where is now the boast of the architect! regularity the only part in which he fancied himself to exceed his mistress, Nature, is here found in her possession, and here it has been for ages undescribed.
Page 5 - After some time, this violent paroxysm ceasing, we again stood up, in order to prosecute our voyage to Euphaemia, that lay within sight. In the mean time, while we were preparing for this purpose, I turned my eyes towards the city, but could see only a frightful dark cloud, that seemed to rest upon the place. This the more surprised us, as the weather was so very serene. We waited, therefore, till the cloud was passed away : then turning to look for the city, it was totally sunk.
Page 439 - ... feet. A part of this thickness is constituted by a coat of earth, which gives growth to many large trees. The residue, with the hill on both sides, is one solid rock of limestone. The arch approaches the Semielliptical form; but the larger axis of the ellipsis, which would be the cord of the arch, is many times longer than the transverse.