 | 1839 - 512 pàgines
...covered with floating wrecks of every description. It was an undulating body of lumber — shingles, staves, barrels, trusses of hay, and every kind of...be seen which had been capsized or thrown on their beam ends in shallow water. " On reaching the summit of the cathedral tower, a grand but distressing... | |
 | sir William Reid - 1838 - 474 pàgines
...undulating body of lumber* — shingles, staves, barrels, trusses of hay, and every kind of merchandize of a buoyant nature. Two vessels only were afloat...be seen which had been capsized, or thrown on their beam ends in shallow water. " On reaching the summit of the cathedral tower, to whichever point of... | |
 | William Reid - 1838 - 470 pàgines
...afloat within the pier; hut numhers could he seen which had heen capsized, or thrown on their heam ends in shallow water. " On reaching the summit of the...point of the compass the eye was directed, a grand hut distressing picture of ruin presented itself. The whole face of * Lumber is the American term for... | |
 | 1839 - 510 pàgines
...covered with floating wrecks of every description. It was an undulating body of lumber — shingles, staves, barrels, trusses of hay, and every kind of...be seen which had been capsized or thrown on their beam ends in shallow water. " On reaching the summit of the cathedral tower, a grand but distressing... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1839 - 630 pàgines
...lamber—shingles, staves, barrels, trusses of hay, and every sind of merchandise of a buoyant nature. Two vessel» only were afloat within the pier, but numbers could...be seen which had been capsized or thrown on their beam ends in shallow water. 1 As soon as dawn rendered outward objects visible, the writer proceeded... | |
 | William Reid - 1846 - 626 pàgines
...covered with floating wrecks of every description. It was an undulating body of lumber* — shingles, staves, barrels, trusses of hay, and every kind of...compass the eye was directed, a grand but distressing picture of ruin presented itself. The whole face of the country was laid waste ; no sign of vegetation... | |
 | Tempest - 1848 - 316 pàgines
...careenage they set in motion an undulating mass of wreck of every description, —timber, shingles, staves, barrels, trusses of hay, and every kind of...be seen which had been capsized or thrown on their beam ends in shallow water. From the summit of the cathedral tower a grand but distressing picture... | |
 | William Reid - 1850 - 586 pàgines
...covered with floating wrecks of every description. It was an undulating body of lumber* — shingles, staves, barrels, trusses of hay, and every kind of...ruin presented itself. The whole face of the country ^' was laid waste ; no sign of vegetation was apparent, except here and there small patches of a sickly... | |
 | Charles Tomlinson - 1861 - 408 pàgines
...every description, — timber, shingle, staves, barrels, trusses of hay, and every kind of merchandize of a buoyant nature. Two vessels only were afloat...be seen which had been capsized or thrown on their beam ends in shallow water. From the summit of the cathedra] tower a distressing picture of ruin everywhere... | |
 | Heinrich Wilhelm Dove - 1862 - 384 pàgines
...covered with floating wrecks of every description ; it was an undulating body of lumber, shingles, staves, barrels, trusses of hay, and every kind of...compass the eye was directed, a grand but distressing picture of ruin presented itself: the whole face of the country was laid waste; no sign of vegetation... | |
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The gigantic waves rolling onwards seemed as if they would defy all obstruction ; yet as they broke over the careenage they seemed to be lost, the surface of it being entirely covered with floating wrecks of every description. It was an undulating body... 
