 | 1833 - 310 pàgines
...woody parts, wild boars frequently harboured; and, in one part of the plain, covered with ashes, there were three small pools ; one, filled with hot and bitter water ; another, salter than the sea ; and the third, hot but tasteless." In December, 1631, however, these verdant plains and woods, with their... | |
 | Albert Henry Payne - 1844 - 270 pàgines
...of an extinct volcano. An Italian writer thus describes it, shortly before the eruption of 1631 : " The crater was five miles in circumference, and about...sea, and a third hot, but tasteless." But, at length, we quote the words of Mr. Lyell, these forests and grassy plains were consumed, being suddenly blown... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1847 - 866 pàgines
...when he sowed the dragon's teeth. As well might they endeavour to persuade us that on these Phlegnean Fields, as the poets feigned, the giants warred with...grassy plains were consumed, being suddenly blown into * Hamilton's Campi Phlegrai, folio, vol. I. p. 62. ; and Brieslak, Campanic, tome ip 1 86. the air,... | |
 | Hamilton Lanphere Smith - 1848 - 336 pàgines
...bottom there was a plain on which cattle grazed. In the woody parts wild boars frequently harbored. In one part of the plain, covered with ashes, were...salter than the sea, and a third hot but tasteless." Suddenly, in December 1630, these forests and grassy plains were blown into the air, and their ashes... | |
 | William Bellamy (headmaster of Norwich diocesan model sch.) - 1853 - 286 pàgines
...before the violent eruption of 1631 : — " The crater was five miles in circumference, and abont 1000 paces deep; its sides were covered with brushwood,...salter than the sea, and a third hot, but tasteless." Herculaneum was discovered in 1713, and many curions articles have been dug from the ruins since that... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1854 - 870 pàgines
...bottom there was a plain on which cattle grazed. In the woody parts wild boars frequently harbored. In one part of the plain, covered with ashes, were...and their ashes scattered to the winds. In December, 1681, seven streams of lava poured at once from the crater, and overflowed several villages, on the... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1868 - 796 pàgines
...of 1681, in terms that would have fairly represented its condition before the eruption of 79 : — " The crater was five miles in circumference, and about...than the sea, and a third hot, but tasteless." But in December, 1681, the mountain blew away the covering of rock and cinders which supported these woods... | |
 | Richard Atkinson Peacock - 1866 - 88 pàgines
...ISTot long before the eruption of Vesuvius in 1631, in one part of the plain (at the foot of the cone) covered with ashes, were three small pools, one filled...salter than the sea, and a third hot but tasteless. In December, 1631, great floods of mud were as destructive as the lava itself; .110 uncommon occurrence... | |
 | 1868 - 850 pàgines
...eruption of 1631, in terms that would have fairly represented its condition before the eruption of 79; — "The crater was five miles in circumference, and about...than the sea, and a third hot, but tasteless." But in December, 1631, the mountain blew away the covering of rock and cinders which supported these woods... | |
 | William Hughes - 1868 - 346 pàgines
...thousand paces deep; its sides were covered with brushwood, and at the bottom there was a plain upon which cattle grazed. In the woody parts wild boars...water, another salter than the sea, and a third hot but tasteless."f But in 1631, this state of repose was violently interrupted; the grassy plain and wooded... | |
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The crater was five miles in circumference, and about a thousand paces deep ; its sides were covered with brushwood, and at the bottom there was a plain on which cattle grazed. In the woody parts, wild boars frequently harboured. In one part of the plain,... 
