 | Characters and characteristics - 1804 - 560 pages
...extended itself at the top into a sort of branches, and it appeared sometimes bright, and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This was a noble phenomenon for the philosophic Pliny, who immediately ordered a light vessel to be... | |
 | Sir William Gell, John Peter Gandy - Extinct cities - 1821 - 496 pages
...fleet. This cloud continued arising in an uniform column of smoke, which varied in brightness, and was dark and spotted, as it was more or less impregnated with earth and 1 Other phaenomena had also been remarked, although no inference had been drawn from their occurrence.... | |
 | Sir William Gell - Excavations (Archaeology) - 1824 - 228 pages
...fleet. This cloud continued arising in an uniform column of smoke, which varied in brightness, and was dark and spotted, as it was more or less impregnated with earth and 1 Other phaenomena had also been remarked, although no inference had been drawn from their occurrence.... | |
 | Adventure and adventurers - 1825 - 840 pages
...fleet. This cloud continued rising in an uniform column of smoke, which varied in brightness, and was dark and spotted, as it was more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. Having attained an immense elevation, expanding itself, it spread out horizontally, in form like the... | |
 | William Clarke (architect.) - Pompeii (Extinct city) - 1836 - 358 pages
...back again by its own weight, expanded in this manner : it appeared 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 curiosity to take a nearer view of it.... | |
 | William Clarke (architect.) - Pompeii (Extinct city) - 1836 - 354 pages
...back again by its own weight, expanded in this manner : it appeared sometimes oright and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This extraordinary phenomenon excited my uncle's philosophical curiosity to take a nearer view of it.... | |
 | Voyages and travels - 1838 - 534 pages
...Misenum. This cloud continued rising in a uniform column of smoke, which varied in brightness, and was dark and spotted, as it was more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. Having attained an immense elevation, expanding itself, it spread out horizontally, in form like the... | |
 | John Miley - Christianity and culture - 1843 - 382 pages
...back again by its own weight, expanded in this manner ; it appeared 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 curiosity to take a nearer view of it.... | |
 | John P. Hiester - Europe - 1845 - 298 pages
...back again by its own weight, expanded in this manner : it appeared sometimes bright and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This extraordinary phenemenon excited my uncle's philosophical curiosity to take a nearer view of it.... | |
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... it appeared sometimes Bright and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. 
