 W. and to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at times moving with great celerity, at others stalking on with a majestic slowness ; at intervals we thought they were coming in a very few minutes to overwhelm...  Selim and Zaida: With Other Poems.. - Pàgina 129per John Boyd Greenshields - 1800 - 154 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1802 - 572 pàgines
...the 141!), at seven in the morning, we left Assa Hagga, our course being due north. At one o'clock we alighted among some acacia trees at Waadi el Halboub,...in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from \V. and to NW of us, •we saw a number of prodigious fillars pf sand at different distances, at times... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1804 - 444 pàgines
...On the 14th, at seven in the morning, we left Assa Hagga, our course being due north. At one o'clock we alighted among some acacia trees at Waadi el Halboub,...in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from \V. and to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars ofsandiit different distances, at times... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1804 - 440 pàgines
...On the 14th, at seven in the morning, we left Assa Hagga, our course being due north. At one o'clock we alighted among some acacia trees at Waadi el Halboub,...in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from W. and to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at times... | |
 | Henry Robertson (M.D.) - 1808 - 452 pàgines
...occurred to him in his journey across the deserts : " Atone o'clock we alighted among some accasia trees at Waadi el Halboub, having gone twenty-one...world. In that vast expanse of desert from west to nor th-west of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand, at different distances, at times... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1809 - 288 pàgines
...The dreadful columns mov'd.—P. 189. We were here at once surprised and terrified by a sight surely the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from W. and to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at times... | |
 | James Bruce - 1813 - 584 pàgines
...morning, we left AssaNagga, our course being due north. At one o'clock we alighted among some acacia-trees at Waadi el Halboub, "having gone twenty-one miles....in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from W. and to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at times... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 588 pàgines
...o'clock," says he, " we alighted among some acacia trees afWaadi el Halbnub, hating gone twenty.or.e miles. We were here at once surprised and terrified...in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from W. to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at times moving... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 470 pàgines
...eddies of air and sand produced by the monsoon winds in Abyssinia is thus described by Mr. Bruce. " We were here at once surprised and terrified by a...the world. In that vast expanse of desert from west and to northwest of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at times... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1821 - 592 pàgines
...description of one or two of tliote. of which he was an eye witness. " At one o-clock," says he, " we alighted among some acacia trees at Waadi el Halboub,...in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from W. to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at times moving... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1821 - 296 pàgines
...dreadful columns mov'd. — P. 1 92. We were here at once surprised and terrified by a sight surely the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from W. and to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at times... | |
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