 | William Buckland - 1837 - 476 pages
...But the finest example I have ever witnessed, is that of the coal mines of Bohemia just mentioned. The most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon...forms, with which the galleries of these instructive coal-mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons... | |
 | 1837
...says, ' The finest example I have ever witnessed is that of the coal-mines of Bohemia just mentioned. The most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon...forms with which the galleries of these instructive coal-mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapeslry, enriched with festoons... | |
 | 1837 - 1822 pages
...says, ' The finest example I have ever witnessed is that of the coal-mines of Bohemia just mentioned. The most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon...forms with which the galleries of these instructive coal-mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons... | |
 | 1837 - 608 pages
...coal mines of Bohemia he observed the finest examples of distinctly preserved vegetable remains. ' The most elaborate ' imitations of living foliage...bear no comparison with the beauteous profusion of ex' tinct vegetable forms by which the galleries are overhung. ' The roof is covered with a canopy... | |
 | 1837 - 1040 pages
...says, ' The finest example I have ever witnessed is that of the coal-mines of Bohemia just mentioned. The most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon the painted ceilings of Italian palaces bear na comparison with the beauteous profusion of extinct vegetable forms with which the galleries of these... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1838 - 372 pages
...describe them in his own eloquent language : — " The most elaborate imitations of living foliage on the painted ceilings of Italian palaces, bear no comparison...forms, with which the galleries of these instructive coal-mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1839 - 456 pages
...But the finest example I have ever witnessed," says Buckland, " is that of the coal-mines of Bohemia. The most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon...forms with which the galleries of these instructive coal-mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons... | |
 | Frederick John Francis - 1839 - 204 pages
...were embellished. " The most elaborate imitations," he says in a passage no less elegant than just, " of living foliage upon the painted ceilings of Italian...comparison with the beauteous profusion of extinct vegetableforms with which the galleries of these instructive coal-mines are overhung. The roof is covered... | |
 | Edmund Ruffin - 1839 - 830 pages
...will be continually bringing to light." In giving an account of the coal mines in" Bohemia he says, "the most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon...ceilings of Italian palaces, bear no comparison with the beautious profusion of extinct vegetable forms with which the galleries of these instructive coal mines... | |
 | 1840 - 430 pages
...which arc still discoverable In it. Professor Buckland, speaking of the coal-mines of Bohemia, says, " The most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon...forms with which the galleries of these instructive coal-mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons... | |
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... are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons of most graceful foliage, flung in wild, irregular profusion over every portion of its surface. The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal-black... 
