 | 1825 - 712 pàgines
...sunk beneath the surface, and disappeared. If I wished to describe the manner in which it acted upou the lava, it was like a loaf of bread thrown into...seemed as if it might easily be stirred with a common walking-stick. Л small distance from its source, as it flows on, it acquires a darker tint upon its... | |
 | 1838 - 274 pàgines
...crater, and laid near the source of the current of lava, I raised upon one end, and then let it fall upon the liquid lava, when it gradually sunk beneath...seemed as if it might easily be stirred with a common walking-stick. A small distance from its source, as it flows on, it acquires a darker tint upon its... | |
 | George Clarke (F.S.A.) - 1833 - 358 pàgines
...surface and disappeared. If I wished to describe the manner in which it acted Upon the lava, I should say it was like a loaf of bread thrown into a bowl of...which gradually involves itself in the heavy liquid which surrounds it, and then slowly sinks to the bottom. The lava itself had a glutinous appearance,... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1834 - 478 pàgines
...disappeared. If I wished to describe the manner in which it acted upon the lava, I should say that it was like a loaf of bread thrown into a bowl of...which gradually involves itself in the heavy liquid, and then slowly sinks to the bottom. " The lava, at a small distance from its source, acquires a darker... | |
 | William Clarke (architect.) - 1836 - 354 pàgines
...surface and disappeared. If I wished to describe the manner in which it acted upon the lava, I should say it was like a loaf of bread thrown into a bowl of...which gradually involves itself in the heavy liquid which surrounds it, and then slowly sinks to the bottom. The lava itself had a glutinous appearance,... | |
 | William Clarke (architect.) - 1836 - 358 pàgines
...surface and disappeared. If I wished to describe the manner in which it acted upon the lava, I should say it was like a loaf of bread thrown into a bowl of...which gradually involves itself in the heavy liquid which surrounds it, and then slowly sinks to the bottom. The lava itself had a glutinous appearance,... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1837 - 568 pàgines
...disappeared. If I wished to describe the manner in which it acted upon the lava, I should say that it was like a loaf of bread thrown into a bowl of...which gradually involves itself in the heavy liquid, and then slowly sinks to the bottom. " The lava, at a small distance from its source, acquires a darker... | |
 | 1838 - 272 pàgines
...crater, and laid near the source of the current of lava, I raised upon one end, and then let it fall upon the liquid lava, when it gradually sunk beneath...seemed as if it might easily be stirred with a common •walking-stick. A small distance from its source, as it flows on, it acquires a darker tiut upon... | |
 | 1838 - 544 pàgines
...acted upon the lava, it was like a loaf of bread thrown into a bowl of very thick honey, •«Inch gradually involves itself in the heavy liquid that...seemed as if it might easily be stirred with a common walking-stick. A small distance from its source, as it flows on, it acquires a darker tint upon its... | |
 | Henry Peter Dunster - 1850 - 372 pàgines
...manner in which it acted upon the lava, I should say it was like a loaf of bread thrown into a boat of very thick honey, which gradually involves itself in the heavy liquid which surrounds it, and then slowly sinks to the bottom. The lava itself had a glutinous appearance;... | |
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I raised upon one end, and then let it fall upon the liquid lava, when it gradually sunk beneath the surface, and disappeared. If I wished to describe the manner in which it acted upon the lava... 
