 | 1804 - 560 Seiten
...afterwards to ascend from Mount Vesuvins. Its figure resembled that of a pine"tree; for it shot up a great height in the form of a trunk, which 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1816 - 540 Seiten
...afterwards to ascend from mount Vesuvius. Its figure resembled that of a pine-tree ; for it shot up to a great height in the form of a trunk, which extended itself at the top into a sort of branches ; and it appeared sometimes bright, and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was either •more or less... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 568 Seiten
...a more exact description of its figure than by resembling it to that of a pine-tree, for it shot up a great height in the form of a trunk, which extended...itself at the top into a sort of branches; occasioned, 1 imagine, either by a sudden gust of air that impelled it, the force of which decreased as it advanced... | |
 | Edwin Atherstone - 1824 - 358 Seiten
...more exact description of its figure, than by resembling it to that of a pine-tree, for it shot up a great height in the form of a trunk, which extended...top into a sort of branches; occasioned, I imagine, either by a sudden gust of air that impelled it, the force of which decreased as it advanced upwards,... | |
 | Charles Room - 1828 - 108 Seiten
...more exact description of its figure, than by resembling it to that of a pine tree ; for it shot up a great height in the form of a trunk, which extended...top into a sort of branches ; occasioned, I imagine, either by a sudden gust of air that upheld it, the force of which decreased as it advanced upwards... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 Seiten
...more exact description of its figure than by resembling it to that of a pine-tree ; for it shot up a great height in the form of a trunk, which extended...top into a sort of branches ; occasioned, I imagine, either by a sudden gust of air that impelled it, the force of which decreased as it advanced upwards... | |
 | William Clarke (architect.) - 1836 - 358 Seiten
...place : Now flaming embers spread dire waste around, And Gods regret that Gods cin thus confound." which extended itself at the top into a sort of branches ; occasioned, I imagine, either by a sudden gust of air that impelled it, the force of which decreased as it advanced upwards,... | |
 | William Clarke (architect.) - 1836 - 354 Seiten
...the place : Now flaming embers spread dire waste around, And Qods regret that Gods cm thus confound." which extended itself at the top into a sort of branches ; occasioned, I imagine, either by a sudden gust of air that impelled it, the force of which decreased as it advanced upwards,... | |
 | John Edmund Reade - 1838 - 584 Seiten
...its figure than " by resembling it to that of a pine-tree, for it shot up to a '• great height in form of a trunk, which extended itself, at " the top, into a sort of branches." PLINY. LXVII. Vesuvius, in his ever-green attire : " Above these," says Strabo, " rises Vesuvius, well... | |
 | 1840 - 530 Seiten
...afterwards to ascend from Mount Vesuvius. Its figure resembled that of a pine-tree; fur it shot up to a great height in the form of a trunk, which extended itself at top into a sort of branches; and it appeared sometimes bright, and sometimes dark and spotted, as it... | |
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I cannot give you a more exact description of its figure than by resembling it to that of a pine-tree ; for it shot up a great height in the form of a trunk, which extended itself at the top into a sort of branches... 
