 | Charles Darwin - 1846 - 716 sayfa
...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 - 224 sayfa
...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 - 156 sayfa
...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 - 524 sayfa
...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 - 598 sayfa
...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 - 608 sayfa
...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 - 1114 sayfa
...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 - 360 sayfa
...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 - 546 sayfa
...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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Shortly after the shock, a great wave was seen from the distance of three or four miles, approaching in the middle of the bay with a smooth outline ; but along the shore it tore up cottages and trees, as it swept onwards with irresistible force. At the... 
