 | Thomas Henry Dyer - 1867 - 626 pages
...from Mount Vesuvius.f 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 height...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... | |
 | Frédéric Zurcher - 1868 - 438 pages
...from Mount Vesuvius. 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...of a trunk, which extended itself at the top into sort of branches ; occasioned, I imagine, either by a sudden gust of air that impelled it, the force... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1868 - 822 pages
...attention was called to a cloud of unusual size and shape. In figure it resembled a pine-tree, for l' it shot up a great height in the form of a trunk,...extended itself at the top into a sort of branches." Anxious to command a nearer view of this remarkable phenomenon, Pliny ordered a light vessel to be... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1868 - 574 pages
...I cannot give a more exact description of its figure than by likening it to that of a pinetree, fur it shot up a great height in the form of a trunk, which extended itself at the top into the form of branches ; occasioned, I imagine, either by a sudden gust of air which impelled it, the... | |
 | 1868 - 850 pages
...more exact description of its figure than by comparing it to that of a pine-tree, for it sbot up to great height in the form of a trunk, which extended itself at the top into a sort of branches; occasioned, I suppose, either by a sudden gust of air which impelled it, whose force decreased as it... | |
 | John Phillips - 1869 - 458 pages
...more exact description of its f1gure 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, occasioned, I imagine, either by a sudden gust of air that impelled it, the force of which decreased... | |
 | 1869 - 542 pages
...not clear from which mountain the cloud proceeded, but it was " like 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." Many times since has the famous " pine-tree cloud " hung in terrific beauty over the landscape, but... | |
 | Horace A. Cleveland - 1869 - 610 pages
...description of its figure than by resembling ifc to that of a pine tree, for it shot up 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 of which decreased... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1870 - 526 pages
...was esteemed as greatly contributing to health, and therefore daily practised by them. — ED. & to that of a pine-tree, for it shot up a great height...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... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1870 - 276 pages
...which was esteemed as greatly contributing to health, and therefore daily practised by them. — ED. to that of a pine-tree, for it shot up a great height...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... | |
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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... 
