But the most sublime scene is where a mural pile of porphyry, escaping the process of disintegration that is devastating the coast, appears to have been left as a sort of rampart against the inroads of the ocean ; the Atlantic, when provoked by wintry... Walks in the Country - Стр. 15авторы: Chandos Leigh - 1844 - Страниц: 170Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| Sir David Brewster, Robert Jameson - 1822 - Страниц: 458
...porphyry, escaping the process of disintegration that is devastating the coast, appears to have been left as a sort of rampart against the inroads of the...the waves having in their repeated assaults forced for themselves an entrance. This breach, named the Grind of the Navir, is widened every winter by the... | |
| Sir David Brewster, Robert Jameson - 1822 - Страниц: 456
...porphyry, escaping the process of disintegration that is devastating the coast, appears to have been left as a sort of rampart against the inroads of the...artillery, — the waves having in their repeated assaultii) forced for themselves an entrance. This breach, named the Grind of the Navir, is widened... | |
| Samuel Hibbert - 1822 - Страниц: 670
...porphyry, escaping the process of disintegration that is devastating the coast, appears to have been left as a sort of rampart against the inroads of the ocean ; — the Atlantic", when provoked by wintery gales, batters against it with all the force of real '•'-NEW YORK ' TO T rr> tfi f/tr J*<iris}i... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - Страниц: 798
...porphyry, escaping the process of disintegration that is devastating the coast, appears to have been left as a- sort of rampart against the inroads of...the waves having in their repeated assaults forced for themselves an entrance. This breach, named the Grind of the Navir, is widened every winter by the... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - 1832 - Страниц: 634
...devastating the coast, appears to have been left as a sort of rampart against the inroads of the ocean;—the Atlantic, when provoked by wintry gales, batters against it with all the force of real artillery—the No. 8. GtinJofthcXarir—rassage forced by the sea through rucla of hard porphyry.... | |
| John M. Moffatt - 1835 - Страниц: 854
...process of disintegration that idevastating the coast, appears to have been left as a sort of ranpart against the inroads of the ocean ; the Atlantic, when...wintry gales, batters against it with all the force of na artillery, the waves having, in their repeated assaults, forced tbe-- selves an entrance. This breach,... | |
| James Wilson - 1842 - Страниц: 522
...devastating the coast, appears to have been left as a sort of rampart against the inroads of the ocean;—the Atlantic, when provoked by wintry gales, batters against it with all the force of real artillery,—the waves having in their repeated assaults forced for themselves an entrance. This breach,... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - 1847 - Страниц: 866
...porphyry, escaping the process of disintegration that is devastating the coast, appears to have been left as a sort of rampart against the inroads of the...provoked by wintry gales, batters against it with all the foree of real artillery — the waves having, in their repeated assaults, forced themselves an entrance.... | |
| Thomas Milner - 1848 - Страниц: 892
...porphyry, escaping the process of disintegration that is devastating the coast, appears to have been left as a sort of rampart against the inroads of the...repeated assaults, forced themselves an entrance. This breach, named the Grind of the Navir, is widened every winter by the overwhelming surge that,... | |
| Robert Ellis (F.L.S.) - 1850 - Страниц: 548
...the process of disintegration that is devastating the coast, appears to have been left as a sort of a rampart against the inroads of the ocean. The Atlantic,...their repeated assaults forced themselves an entrance. This breach, named the Grind of Navir, is widened every winter by the overwhelming surge that, finding... | |
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