 The noise of this terrible flood is heard five or six miles, and increases as it approaches. Presently you see a liquid promontory twelve or fifteen feet high, followed by another, and another, and sometimes by a fourth. These watery mountains spread...  The countries of the world - Seite 130von Robert Brown - 1876Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Daniel Parish Kidder - 1845 - 430 Seiten
...manner. The noise of this terrible flood is heard five or six miles, and increases as it approaches. Presently you see a liquid promontory twelve or fifteen...advance with a prodigious rapidity, rending and crushing every thing in their way. Immense trees are instantly uprooted by it, and sometimes whole tracts of... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1847 - 566 Seiten
...manner. The noise of this terrible flood is heard five or six miles, and increases as it approaches. Presently you see a liquid promontory twelve or fifteen...and sometimes by a fourth. These watery mountains speed across the whole channel, and advance with a prodigious rapidi'y. rending and crushing everything... | |
 | John Purdy - 1855 - 634 Seiten
...heard a or 6 miles, aud increases as it approaches. Presently you see a liquid promontory 12 or 15 feet high, followed by another and another, and sometimes...crushing everything in their way. Immense trees are iusuntly uprooted by it, and sometimes whole tracts of land are swept away." In the following description... | |
 | 1856 - 986 Seiten
...manner. The noise of this terrible flood is heard five or six miles, and increases as it approaches. Presently you see a liquid promontory twelve or fifteen...crushing everything in their way. Immense trees are instantly uprooted by it, and sometimes whole tracts of land are swept away/" [AwA/er.J This pheno-ч?... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1858 - 800 Seiten
...heard 5 or 6 mile», and increases as it approaches. Presently you see л liquid promontory, 12 or 15 feet high, followed by another, and another, and sometimes...advance with a prodigious rapidity, rending and crushing every thing in their way. Immense trees are instantAMAZONS 44В ly uprooted by it, and sometimes whole... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1873 - 866 Seiten
...five or six miles, and increases as it approaches. Presently you see a liquid promontory, 12 or 15 feet high, followed by another, and another, and sometimes...crushing everything in their way. Immense trees are instantly uprooted by it, and sometimes whole tracts of land are swept away." It is difficult for vessels... | |
 | Modern geographical readers - 1882 - 324 Seiten
...sea, instead of occupying six hours to reach its flood, swells to its highest limits in two or three minutes. Presently you see a liquid promontory twelve or fifteen feet high followed by a second and a third, and sometimes a fourth. The watery hills spread across the whole channel, and... | |
 | James William Buel - 1884 - 832 Seiten
...this terrible flood is heard five or six miles and increases as it approaches. Presently may be seen a liquid promontory, twelve or fifteen feet high,...crushing everything in their way. Immense trees are instantly uprooted by it, and sometimes whole tracts of land are swept away." Another characteristic... | |
 | Thomas Wallace Knox - 1885 - 546 Seiten
...minutes. The noise of this terrible flood is heard five or six miles, and increases as it approaches. Presently you see a liquid promontory, twelve or fifteen...crushing everything in their way. Immense trees are instantly uprooted by it, and sometimes whole tracts of land are swept away.' " " It must be a terrible... | |
 | 1908 - 588 Seiten
...minutes. The noise of this terrible flood is heard five or six miles off, and increases as it approaches. Presently you see a liquid promontory twelve or fifteen feet high, followed by another, and another, and Ax ARTISTIC BRIDGE— A COMMON TYPE. TYPICAL BKIDGK OK SUBSTANTIAL CHARACTER. NOTE THE ABSENCE OK I'BOMIISEST... | |
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