| 1818 - 594 Seiten
...to be awfully present : the sky was overcast at noon-day with clouds of ashes ; the sun was involved in an atmosphere whose 'palpable' density he was unable...and, amid this darkness, explosions were heard at intervals like the report of artillery, or the noise of distant thunder. So fully did the resemblance... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1820 - 636 Seiten
...distance of three hundred miles, it seemed to be awfully present. The sky was overcast at noon-day wkh clouds of ashes, the sun was enveloped in an atmosphere...; and amid this darkness, explosions were heard at intervals/ It is mentioned, that the sound was heard at a place so far westward in Sumatra as to be... | |
| Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 788 Seiten
...eruptions which occur f with win marks the within the in an atmosphere, the "palpable" density of which it wAs. unable to penetrate ; showers of ashes covered...and, amid this darkness, explosions were heard at intervals, like the report of artillery, or the noise of distant thunder. Every one conceived, that... | |
| 1825 - 188 Seiten
...immediately in the neighbourhood. The sky wa» overcast with clouds of ashes — ihowers of ashct c 3 covered the houses, the streets, and the fields to the depth of several inches — and explosions were heard at intervals like the noise of distant thunder. In the island of Sutnbawa itself,... | |
| Charles Daubeny - 1826 - 512 Seiten
...sun was enveloped in an atmosphere, whose " palpable density" he was unable to penetrate; a shower of ashes covered the houses, the streets, and the...the depth of several inches, and amid this darkness explosions-were heard at intervals, like the report of artillery, or the noise of distant thunder.... | |
| Charles Daubeny - 1826 - 504 Seiten
...Java, at the distance of 300 miles, it seemed to be awfully present. The sky was overcast at midday with clouds of ashes, the sun was enveloped in an,...whose "palpable density" he was unable to penetrate; a shower of ashes covered the houses, the streets, and the fields, to the depth of several inches,... | |
| Robert Bakewell - 1828 - 614 Seiten
...distance of three hundred miles, it seemed to be awfully present. The sky, was overcast at noonday with clouds of ashes ; the sun was enveloped in an...; and amid this darkness, explosions were heard at intervals like the report of artillery or the noise of distant thunder. So fully did the resemblance... | |
| 1829 - 466 Seiten
...distance of more than 300 miles, it seemed to be awfully present. The sky was overcast at noonday w ith clouds of ashes; the sun was enveloped in an atmosphere,...houses, the streets, and the fields, to the depth ol several inches ; and, amid the darkness, explosions were heard at intervals like the report of artillery,... | |
| Robert Bakewell - 1829 - 726 Seiten
...distance of three hundred miles, it seemed to be awfully present. The sky was overcast at noon-day with clouds of ashes; the sun was enveloped in an atmosphere, whose - palpable 1 density he was unable to penetrate; showers of ashes covered the houses, the streets, and the fields,... | |
| Robert Bakewell - 1829 - 602 Seiten
...distance of three hundred miles, it seemed to be awfully present. The sky was overcast at noon-day with clouds of ashes ; the sun was enveloped in an atmosphere, whose k palpable' density he was unable to penetrate ; showers of ashes covered the houses, the streets,... | |
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