 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Geography - 1832 - 1028 pages
...eastern shore. This celebrated volcano has thrown out flames, at intervals, for more than 2000 years. Its immense size and solitary elevation, the beauty...truncated cone. Upon a nearer approach, the traveller is astonjshed at the wild and grotesque appearance of the whole mountain. Scattered over the immense declivity,... | |
 | James Bell - Geography - 1832 - 622 pages
...been the origin of the name, the mountain itself has for many agea attracted the notice of mankind. Its immense size and solitary elevation, — the beauty...scenery, — and the terrific grandeur of the convulsions and changes to which it has been subject, have excited the descriptive powers of the poet, and afforded... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1833 - 516 pages
...by its perpetual burning, and so often sends forth its streams of burning lava. Its immense size and elevation, the beauty and magnificence of the surrounding scenery, and the terrific grandeur of its convulsive struggles when trembling under its- internal efforts to throw out its burning entrails,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Geography - 1840 - 536 pages
...celebrated volcano has thrown out flames, at intervals, for more than 2,000 years. Its immense size nnd solitary elevation, the beauty and magnificence of...like a truncated cone. Upon a nearer approach, the traveler is astonished at the wild and grotesque appearance of the whole mountain. Scattered over the... | |
 | Samuel Augustus Mitchell - Geography - 1840 - 612 pages
...feet in height. This celebrated volcano has thrown out flames, at intervals, for more than 2000 years. Its immense size and solitary elevation, the beauty...surrounding scenery, and the terrific grandeur of its eruptions, have made it one of the wonders of the world. The Lipari islands lie north of Sicily.... | |
 | Samuel Augustus Mitchell - 1846 - 604 pages
...eastern shore. This celebrated volcano has thrown out flames, at intervals, for more than 2000 years. Its immense size and solitary elevation, the beauty...appearance of the whole mountain. Scattered over the ircmense declivity, he beholds innumerable small conical hills gently rising from the surface to the... | |
 | Europe - 1847 - 568 pages
...island, in a valley called Val di Demona, at the foot of the Neptunian or central chain of Sicily. Its immense size and solitary elevation, the beauty...scenery, and the terrific grandeur of the convulsions and changes to which it has been subject, have excited the descriptive powers of the poet, and affctrded... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1856 - 828 pages
...eastern shore. This celebrated volcano has thrown out flames, at intervals, for more than 2,000 years. Its immense size and solitary elevation, the beauty...like a truncated cone. Upon a nearer approach, the traveler is astonished at the wild and grotesque appearance of the whole mountain. Scattered over the... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Geography - 1856 - 1016 pages
...eastern shore. This celebrated volcano has thrown out flames, at intervals, for more than 2,000 years. Its immense size and solitary elevation, the beauty...like a truncated cone. Upon a nearer approach, the traveler is astonished at the wild and grotesque appearance of the whole mountain. Scattered over the... | |
 | Gazetteers - 1856 - 986 pages
...been the origin of the name, the mountain itself has for many ages attracted the notice of mankind. Its immense size and solitary elevation, — the beauty and magnificence of the surrounding scenery, — the terrific grandeur of the' convulsions and changes to which it has been subject, — have all,... | |
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This celebrated volcano has thrown out flames, at intervals, for more than 2000 years. Its immense size and solitary elevation, the beauty and magnificence of the surrounding scenery, and the terrific grandeur of the convulsions to which it has been subject,... 