 | Religion - 1832 - 852 pages
...highest cone was part of a larger and continuous glacier covered by a lava-current. Having procured a body of workmen, he quarried into this ice, and proved...ice could account for the position of the glacier. Mr. Lyell, who visited the spot, supposes that, at the commencement of the eruption , a deep mass of... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1830 - 482 pages
...: for he had long suspected that a small mass of perennial ice at the foot of the highest cone was part of a larger and continuous glacier covered by...glacier. Unfortunately for the " geologist, the ice wa» so extremely hard, and the excavation so expensive,' that there is no probability of the '' operation... | |
 | Science - 1831 - 460 pages
...for several hundred yards, so as completely to satisfy himself that nothing irsylh't Italy, vol. ii. but the "subsequent flowing of the] lava over the...so expensive, that there is no probability of the operations being renewed. On the 1st of December 1828, I visited this spot, which is on the south-east... | |
 | William Rae Wilson - 1831 - 812 pages
...by a lava current. Having procured a large body of workmen, he quarried into this ice, and examined the superposition of the lava for several hundred...ice could account for the position of the glacier. forth. For ages there have been eruptions from /Ktna, the first of which on record is said to have... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1832 - 634 pages
...long suspected that a small mass of perennial ice at the foot of the highest cone was part of a large and continuous glacier covered by a lava current....so expensive, that there is no probability of the operations being renewed. On the first of December 1828, I visited this spot, which is on the south-east... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1833 - 1094 pages
...had long suspected that a mass of perennial ice at the foot of the highest cone was part of a large and continuous glacier covered by a lava current....ice could account for the position of the glacier.' Mr. Lyell thus accounts for this extraordinary phenomenon. ' We may suppose that, at the commencement... | |
 | 1833 - 540 pages
...had long suspected that a mass of perennial ice at the foot of the highest cone was part of a large and continuous glacier covered by a lava current....but the subsequent flowing of the lava over the ice oould account for the position of the glacier.' Mr. Lyell thus accounts for this extraordinary phenomenon.... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1837 - 568 pages
...satisfy himself that nothing but the subsequent flowing of * Ferrara, Descriz. dell' Etna, p. 116. the lava over the ice could account for the position...so expensive, that there is no probability of the operations being renewed. On the first of December, 1828, I visited this spot, which is on the south-east... | |
 | sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1840 - 518 pages
...the foot of the highest cone was part of a large and continuous glacier covered by a lava-current. Having procured a large body of workmen, he quarried...so expensive, that there is no probability of the operations being renewed. On the first of December, 1828,1 visited this spot, which is on the south-east... | |
 | David Purdie Thomson - Meteorology - 1849 - 516 pages
...long suspected that a small mass of perennial ice at the foot of the highest cone was part of a large and continuous glacier covered by a lava current....ice could account for the position of the glacier." This interesting spot is near the Casa Inglese, on the south-east side of the cone. Regarding the probable... | |
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Having procured a large body of workmen, he quarried into this ice, and proved the superposition of the lava for several hundred yards, so as completely to satisfy himself that nothing but the subsequent flowing of the lava over the ice could account... 
