 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - Natural history - 1818 - 604 pages
...volcanoes. At the city of Quito there was seen in one part of the sky, above the volcano ofCayambo, so great a number of falling stars, that the mountain...than an hour. The people assembled in the plain of Exido, wliere a magnificent view presents itself of the highest summits of the Cordilleras. A procession,... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - Natural history - 1822 - 592 pages
...volcanoes. At the city of Quito there was seen in one part of the sky, above the volcano of Cayambo, so great a number of falling stars, that the mountain...than an hour. The people assembled in the plain of Exido, where a magnificent view presents itself of the highest summits of the Cordilleras. A procession... | |
 | John Hubbard Wilkins - Astronomy - 1825 - 151 pages
...volcanoes. At the city of Quito, there was seen, in one part of the sky, above the volcano of Gayamba, so great a number of falling stars, that the mountain...procession was already on the point of setting out from the COHvent of St. Francis, when it was perceived, that the blaze of the horizon was caused by fiery meteors,... | |
 | John Hubbard Wilkins - Astronomy - 1829 - 202 pages
...volcanoes. At the -city of Quito, there was seen, in one part of the sky, above the volcano of Gayamba, so great a number of falling stars, that the mountain...presents itself of the highest summit of the Cordilleras. Asprocession was already on the point of setting out from the convent of St. Francis, when it was perceived,... | |
 | Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Astronomy - 1838 - 350 pages
...before, at the city of Quito, '/There was seen in one part of the sky, above the voleano of Cayamburo, so great a number of falling stars, that the mountain was thought to be in flames. This singular sight la,ted more than an hour. The people assembled in the plain of Exida, where a magnificent view presents... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - Astronomy - 1838 - 160 pages
...land of the Andes. At Quito, there was seen in one part of the sky, above the volcano of Gayamba, so great a number of falling stars, that the mountain was thought to be in flames. This extraordinary light lasted more than an hour. Those meteors which are heard to burst, the explosion... | |
 | Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Astronomy - 1842 - 344 pages
...before, at the city of Quito, There was seen in one part of the sky, above the volcano of Cayamburo, so great a number of falling stars, that the mountain...than an hour. The people assembled in the plain of Exida, where a magnificent view presents itself of the highest summits of the Cordilleras. A procession... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
...sky above the volcano of Cayambaro, that the mountain itself was thought at first to be on fire. The sight lasted more than an hour. The people assembled in the plain of Exida, where a magnificent view presented itself of the highest summits of the Cordilleras. A procession... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - Natural history - 1852 - 544 pages
...was seen in one part of the sky, above the volcano of Cayamba, such great numbers of falling-stars, that the mountain was thought to be in flames. This...than an hour. The people assembled in the plain of Exido, * Hitter, like several others, makes a distinction between bolides mingled with falling-stars... | |
 | Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Astronomy - 1856 - 358 pages
...people assembled in the plain of Kxida,, where a magnificent view presents itself of the highest summits of the Cordilleras. A procession was already on the...setting out from the convent of St. Francis, when it was per ceived that the blaze on the horizon was caused by fiery meteors, which run along the sky in all... | |
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Exido, where a magnificent view presents itself of the highest summits of the Cordilleras. A procession was already on the point of setting out from the Convent of St. Francis, when it was perceived, that the blaze on the horizon was caused by fiery meteors,... 
