| Richard Henry Stoddard - 1809 - 518 páginas
...fragments of burning rocks were thrown up to prodigious heights, and that through a thick cloud of ashes, illumined by the volcanic fire, the softened surface of the earth was seen to swell like an agitated sea. The rivers of Cuitamba and San Pedro precipitated themselves into the burning... | |
| 1810 - 590 páginas
...of burning rocks were thrown up to prodigious heights, and that through clouds of ashes illuminated by the volcanic fire, the softened surface of the earth was seen to swell up like an agitated sea. The rivers of Caitamba and San Pedro precipitated thcmseJrcs into the... | |
| Alexander von Humboldt - 1814 - 538 páginas
...fragments of burning rocks were thrown up to prodigious heights, and that through a thick cloud of ashes, illumined by the volcanic fire, the softened surface of the earth was seen to swell up like an agitated sea. * The French mile is, it is believed, nearly as 2.88" to 1 . almost... | |
| William Bingley - 1821 - 374 páginas
...fragments of burning rocks were thrown up to prodigious heights; and that, through a thick cloud of ashes, illumined by the volcanic fire, the softened surface of the earth was seen to swell up like an agitated sea. The rivers of Cultamba and San Pedro precipitated themselves into the... | |
| Nicholas Mill - 1824 - 346 páginas
...intendancy is the Volcano de Xorullo, or Juruyo, which was formed in the night of the 20th SepL tember, 1759. The catastrophe in which this mountain rose...extraordinary convulsion. Thousands of small cones, from six to ten feet in height, were projected from the L2 surface, which became a kind of funnel, from which... | |
| Nicholas Mill - 1824 - 324 páginas
...the cultivators. In the beginning of September, tranquillity appeared to be restored. The roaring had ceased, and the earthquakes were suspended. In the...extraordinary convulsion. Thousands of small cones, from six to ten feet in height, were projected from the L2 surface, which became a kind of funnel, from which... | |
| Friedrich Wilhelm H. Alexander freiherr von Humboldt - 1824 - 364 páginas
...fragments of burning rocks were thrown up to prodigious heights, and that through a thick cloud of ashes, illumined by the volcanic fire, the softened surface of the earth was seen to swell up like an agitated sea. The rivers of Cuitamba and San Pedro precipitated themselves into the... | |
| Alexander von Humboldt - 1824 - 376 páginas
...fragments of burning rocks were thrown up to prodigious heights, and that through a thick cloud of ashes, illumined by the volcanic fire, the softened surface of the earth was seen to swell up like an agitated sea. The rivers of Cuitamba and San Pedro precipitated themselves into the... | |
| 1826 - 412 páginas
...fragments of burning rocks were thrown up to prodigious heights, and that, through a thick cloud of ashes, illumined by the volcanic fire, the softened surface of the earth was seen to swell up like an agitated sea. The rivers of Cuitamba and San Pedro precipitated themselves into the... | |
| Josiah Conder - 1830 - 332 páginas
...fragments of burning rocks were thrown up to prodigious heights, and that, through a thick cloud of ashes, illumined by the volcanic fire, the softened surface of the earth was seen to swell up like an agitated sea. The rivers of Cuitamba and San Pedro precipitated themselves into the... | |
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