 | 1840 - 524 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... | |
 | Ruins - 1852 - 464 Seiten
...ascend from Mount Vesuvius. I cannot give a more exact description of its figure, than by resembling it to that of a pine-tree, for it shot up a great...of a trunk, 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... | |
 | Daniel Clarke Eddy - 1852 - 538 Seiten
...description of its figure than by resembling it to that of a pine tree ; for it shot up to a great hight in the form of a trunk, 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... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1854 - 740 Seiten
...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 ; occasioned, I imagine, either by a sudden gust of air that impelled it, the force... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 332 Seiten
...give a more exact description of its figure than by resembling it to 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 ; occasioned, I imagine, either by a sudden gust of air that impelled it, the force... | |
 | Rand - 1857 - 344 Seiten
...ascend from Mount Vesuvius. I cannot give you a more exact description of its figure than by resembling it to that of a pinetree, for it shot up a great height...of a trunk, 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... | |
 | John Edmund Reade - 1857 - 296 Seiten
...more exact description of its figure than by resembling it to 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."—PLINY. " Vesuvius robed in ever green attire f " " Above these," says Strabo,... | |
 | John Edmund Reade - 1857 - 292 Seiten
...more exact description of its figure than by resembling it to 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." — PLINY. " Vesuvius robed in ever green attire f" " Above these," says Strabo,... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1858 - 496 Seiten
..."at that distance discernible from what mountain it arose, but it was found afterwards that it was Vesuvius. I cannot give a more exact description of...into the form of branches ; occasioned, I imagine, cither by a sudden gust of air which impelled it, the force of which decreased as it advanced upwards,... | |
 | Daniel Clarke Eddy - 1859 - 510 Seiten
...description of its figure than by resembling it to that of a pine tree ; for it shot up to a great hight in the form of a trunk, 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... | |
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It was not at that distance discernible from what mountain this cloud issued, but it was found afterwards to ascend from Mount Vesuvius. I cannot give you a more exact description of its figure than by resembling it to that of a pinetree, for it shot... 
