 | 1827 - 790 pàgines
...lake Asphaltitis, the lava, the pumice-stones thrown upon its banks, and the hot-baths of Tabaria, demonstrate, that this valley has been the seat of...subterraneous fire, which is not yet extinguished. • The chemical properties of the waters of the Dead Sea, rather lend countenance to the volcanic... | |
 | Augustin Calmet - 1814 - 636 pàgines
...the hike Asphaltiles, the lava, the pumice stones, thrown on its banks, and the hot bath of Tabaria, demonstrate that this valley has been the seat of...subterraneous fire, which is not yet extinguished, [compare Jude 7.] Clouds of smoke are often observed to issue from the lake, and new crevices to-bo... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1825 - 630 pàgines
...Таbaria," (the antient Tiberias) " demonstrate that this valley has been the seat of a subterraneous tire, which is not yet extinguished. Clouds of smoke are...lake, and new crevices to be formed upon its banks. If conjectures in such cases were not too liable to error, we might suspect that the whole valley has... | |
 | John Lemprière - 1825 - 910 pàgines
...owing to the salt vapours exhaled from the surface, no vegetation is seen along its banks. Volumes of smoke are often observed to issue from the lake, and new crevices are found on its margin.] Plot. 5, c. 6.—Jose/in. J. bell. 4, c. 27.—Stra6. 16, MAREOTIS, now Sr&aA,... | |
 | Charles Daubeny - 1826 - 506 pàgines
...lake Asphaltitis, the lava, the pumice-stones thrown upon its banks, and the hot-baths of Tabaria, demonstrate, that this valley has been the seat of...lake, and new crevices to be formed upon its banks. If conjectures in such cases were not too liable to error, we might suspect, that the whole valley... | |
 | Charles Daubeny - 1826 - 504 pàgines
...the pumice-stones thrown upon its banks, and the hot-baths of Tabaria, demonstrate, that this valfey has been the seat of a subterraneous fire, which is...lake, and new crevices to be formed upon its banks. If conjectures in such cases were not too liable to error, we might suspect, that the whole valley... | |
 | 1826 - 454 pàgines
...stones thrown upon its b; Tabaria, demonstate, that this valle terraneous fire, which is not yet ext Clouds of smoke are often observed to issue from the...lake, and new crevices to be formed upon its banks. If conjectures in ;strch cases were not too liable to error, we might suspect, that the- whole valley... | |
 | John Mitford - 1827 - 360 pàgines
...baths of Tabaria, demonstrate that this valley has been the seat of a subterraneous conflagration, not yet extinguished. Clouds of smoke are often observed to issue from the lake, and new crevices to be found upon it's banks. Volney, 1. p. 303. If we adopt the idea of Professor Michaelis and Busching,... | |
 | Esther Copley - 1829 - 514 pàgines
...issuing from the lake, and new crevices to be formed on its banks: all these circumstances concur to demonstrate, that this valley has been the seat of...subterraneous fire, which is not yet extinguished. It was long a prevalent opinion, that no fish, or other living creature, would exist in the Dead sea,... | |
 | Peter Graham (topographical writer.) - 1836 - 292 pàgines
...lake Asphaltites, the lava, the pumice stones thrown upon its banks, and the hot baths of Tabaria, demonstrate that this valley has been the seat of...observed to issue from the lake, and new crevices to be found upon its banks. If conjectures in such case were not too liable to error, we might suspect that... | |
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Asphaltitis, the lava, the pumice-stones thrown upon its banks, and the hot-baths of Tabaria, demonstrate, that this valley has been the seat of a subterraneous fire, which is not yet extinguished. Clouds of smoke are often observed to issue from the... 
