... parts where it rises, a barrier against the invasion of these sands the shores of the river, on that side, would long since have ceased to be habitable. Nothing can be more melancholy... Essay on the Theory of the Earth - Pągina 216per Georges baron Cuvier, Robert Jameson - 1817 - 348 pąginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Jean André Luc - 1811 - 576 pągines
...traveller, " than to walk over villages " swallowed up by the sand of the desert, to tram* " pie under foot their roofs, to strike against the " summits of their...would appear on any part of the western bank of " the " the Nile, which is exposed to this scourge of the " sands of the desert. The existence, therefore,... | |
| Jean André Luc - 1811 - 580 pągines
...traveller, " than to walk over villages " swallowed up by the sand of the desert, to tram " pie under foot their roofs, to strike against the " summits of their..." would appear on any part of the western bank of 282 " the yilc, wlich is exposed to this scourge of the " sands of the desert. The existence, therefore,... | |
| Charles Bucke - 1823 - 474 pągines
...in the account of his travels in Lower and Upper Egypt, that summits of the ruins of ancient cities, buried under these sands, still appear externally...the dwellings of men, and that all has vanished." — De Luc, Alercure de France, Sept. 1807. — Jameson. • > La Croix, Hist. Genghis Khan, p. 256.... | |
| Charles Bucke - 1823 - 352 pągines
...sands, the shores of the river, on that side, would long since have ceased to be habitable. Nothiug can be more melancholy, says this traveller) than...here were even the dwellings of men, and that all has »anisbed."—De Luc, Mercurt rie France, Sept. 1807.—Jameson. earth," 1 once the emporium of the... | |
| Mary Roberts - 1835 - 318 pągines
...the desert ; to trample under foot their roofs, to strike against the summits of their minarets, and to reflect, that yonder were cultivated fields, — that there grew trees, — that here were the dwellings of men, — and that all has vanished ! In like manner, the increase of Coral reefs has... | |
| John Lee Comstock - 1836 - 396 pągines
...Denon, " than to walk over villages, swallowed up by the sand of the desert, to trample under foot their roofs, to strike against the summits of their...here were even the dwellings of men, and that all have vanished." De Luc draws an argument from these sand floods in favor of the newness of the earth,... | |
| Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1839 - 518 pągines
...villages swallowed up by the sand of the Desert, to trample under foot their roofs and minarets, and to reflect that yonder were cultivated fields, that there grew trees, that here were the dwellings of men, and that all have now vanished. The sands of the Desert were in ancient times... | |
| William MacGillivray - 1840 - 266 pągines
...Denon, " than to walk over villages, swallowed up by the sand of the desert, to trample under foot their roofs, to strike against the summits of their...here were even the dwellings of men, and that all have vanished." Drift sands on the sea-coast may be fixed by planting them with Arundo arenaria, as... | |
| John Lee Comstock - 1841 - 398 pągines
...Denon, " than to walk over villages, swallowed up by the sand of the desert, to trample under foot their roofs, to strike against the summits of their...here were even the dwellings of men, and that all have vanished." De Luc draws an argument from these sand floods in favor of the newness of the earth,... | |
| John Lee Comstock - 1841 - 388 pągines
..." than to walk over villages, swallowed up by the sand of the desert, to trample under foot tlieir roofs, to. strike against the summits of their minarets,...here were even the dwellings of men, and that all have vanished." Do Luc draws an argument from these sand floods in favor of the newness of the earth,... | |
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