| Charles Darwin - 1846 - Страниц: 716
...had the means of providing food for the day. Earthquakes alone are sufficient to destroy the II. 4 Shortly after the shock, a great wave was seen from...of white breakers, which rushed up to a height of 23 vertical feet above the highest spring-tides. Their force must have been prodigious; for at the... | |
| Ebenezer Meriam - 1847 - Страниц: 224
...lofty houses, thickly packed cities, great manufactories, the beautiful public and private edifices. If the new period of disturbance were first to commence...of white breakers, which rushed up to a height of 23 vertical feet above the highest spring tides, their force must have been prodigious ; for at the... | |
| Hugo Reid - 1850 - Страниц: 156
...themselves ruined, and few had the means of providing food for the day." " Shortly after the shook, a great wave was seen, from the distance of three...trees, as it swept onwards with irresistible force. Aft the head of the bay it broke in a fearful line of white breakers, which rushed up to a height of... | |
| 1854 - Страниц: 524
...a moment into dust, — are also ably Aug. — VOL. ci. NO. cccciv. 2 H and strikingly described. " Shortly after the shock, a great wave was seen from...trees, as it swept onwards with irresistible force." There were some incidents worthy of remark attendant upon an earthquake which took place in Antigua... | |
| 1854 - Страниц: 598
...Shortly after the shock, a great wave was seen from the distfmce of three or four miles, approaching the middle of the bay with a smooth outline ; but...trees, as it swept onwards with irresistible force." There were some incidents worthy of remark attendant upon an earthquake which took place in Antigua... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1854 - Страниц: 608
...labor of generations, crumbled in a moment into dust, — are also ably and strikingly described. " Shortly after the shock, a great wave was seen from the distance of three or four miles, approaching the middle of the bay with a smooth outline ; but along the shore it tore up cottages and trees, as... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1924 - Страниц: 1114
...Voyage of the Beagle, " contain some of his remarks on the earthquake on the coast of Chile in 1835. " Shortly after the shock a great wave was seen, from...in a fearful line of white breakers, which rushed to a height of 23 vertical feet above the highest spring tides. The first wave was followed by two... | |
| François Quesnel - 1869 - Страниц: 360
...du verbe s'en aller dans ses formes affirmative et négative. TRANSLATE INTO FRENCH. A GREAT WAVE. A great wave was seen from the distance of three or four miles, approaching in the middle of the bay1 with a smooth 2 outline,3 but along4 the shore it tore up5 cottages and trees, as it swept onwards6... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1871 - Страниц: 546
...lofty houses, thickly packed cities, great manufactories, the beautiful public and private edifices ? If the new period of disturbance were first to commence...of white breakers, which rushed up to a height of 23 vertical feet above the highest springtides. .Their force must have been prodigious ; for at the... | |
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