 | Peter Parley (pseud.) - 1837 - 406 pages
...strewed numerous loose and unconnected fragments, which time seems to have detached from the apparent mass ; and, when we examine the rents and ravines which accompany the overhanging cliffs, we expect every moment that they are to be torn from their base, and that the process of destructive... | |
 | Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Astronomy - 1838 - 350 pages
...strewed ! numerous loose and unconnected fragments, which time i seems to have detached from their parent mass ; and when ! we examine the rents and ravines which accompany the overhanging clilfs, the beholder expects every moment that they are to be torn from their base, and that the process... | |
 | Fantastical excursion - 1839 - 214 pages
...when examining the rents and ravines which accompany the overhanging cliffs, we expect every minute that they are to be torn from their base, and that the progress of destruction and separation, which we had only contemplated in its effects, is about to... | |
 | Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Astronomy - 1842 - 344 pages
...strewed numerous loose and unconnected fragments, which time seems to have detached from their parent mass ; and when we examine the rents and ravines which...about to be exhibited before him in all its reality. The range of mountains called the Appenines, which traverses a portion of the Moon's disc from north-east... | |
 | Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Astronomy - 1843 - 344 pages
...strewed numerous loose and unconnected fragments, which time seems to have detached from their parent mass ; and when we examine the rents and ravines which...destructive separation which he had only contemplated in its eifects, is about to be exhibited before him in all its reality. The range of mountains called the... | |
 | Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Astronomy - 1843 - 344 pages
...their parent mass ; and when we examine the rents and ravines which accompany the overhanging clitfs, the beholder expects every moment that they are to...destructive separation which he had only contemplated in its eIfects, is about to be exhibited before him in all its reality. The range of mountains called the... | |
 | English literature - 1847 - 584 pages
...strewed numerous loose and unconnected fragments which time seems to have detached from their parent mass, and when we examine the rents and ravines which accompany the overhanging cliffs, we expect every moment that they are to be torn from their base, and that the process of destructive... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1847 - 606 pages
...strewed numerous loose and unconnected fragments which time seems to have detached from their parent mass, and when we examine the rents and ravines which accompany the overhanging 'cliffs, we expect every moment that they arc to be torn from their base, and that the process of destructive... | |
 | Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Astronomy - 1850 - 344 pages
...strewed nnmerons loose and nnconnected fragments, which time seems to have detached from their parent mass ; and when we examine the rents and ravines which...expects every moment that they are to be torn from their hase, and that the process of destroctive separation which he had only contemplated in its effects,... | |
 | Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Astronomy - 1856 - 358 pages
...strewed numerous loose and unconnected fragments, which time seems to have detached from their parent mass ; and when we examine the rents and ravines which...beholder expects every moment that they are to be tora from their base, and that the process of destructive separation which he had only contemplated... | |
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Around the base of these frightful eminences, are strewed numerous loose and unconnected fragments, which time seems to have detached from their parent mass ; and when we examine the rents and ravines which accompany the over-hanging cliffs... 
