 | Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Astronomy - 1856 - 362 pages
...strewed numerons loose and uncounected fragments, which time seems to have detached from their parent mass ; and when we examine the rents and ravines which accompany the overhanging cliffs, the heholder expects every moment that they are to he torn from their hase, "and that the process of destrnctive... | |
 | Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Astronomy - 1873 - 360 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...had only contemplated in its effects, is about to i»o exhibited before him in all its reality. 427. The range of mountains called the Apennines, whicl... | |
 | Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Astronomy - 1874 - 362 pages
...which time seems to have detached from their parent mass ; and when we examine the rents and rarines which accompany the overhanging cliffs, the beholder...about to be exhibited before him in all its reality. 427. The range of mountains called the Apennines, which traverses a portion of the Moon's disc from... | |
 | Science - 1842 - 446 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 thit the process of destructive... | |
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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... 
