 | 1826 - 616 pàgines
...it was like a loaf of bread thrown into a bowl of very thick honey, which gradually involves itseJf in the heavy liquid that surrounds it, and then slowly...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... | |
 | William Otter - 1824 - 700 pàgines
...describe the manner in which it acted upon the lava, it was like a loaf of bread thrown into a bowl of very thick honey, which gradually involves itself...stirred with a common walking stick. A small distance from its source, as it flows on, it acquires a darker tint upon its surface, is less easily acted upon,... | |
 | 1825 - 712 pàgines
...describe the manner in which it acted upon the lava, it was like a loaf of bread thrown into a bowl of very thick honey, which gradually involves itself...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... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1835 - 472 pàgines
...manner in which it acted upon the lava, I should say that it was like a loaf of bread thrown into a bowl of very thick honey, 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
...manner in which it acted upon the lava, I should say it was like a loaf of bread thrown into a bowl 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,... | |
 | William Clarke (architect.) - 1836 - 358 pàgines
...manner in which it acted upon the lava, I should say it was like a loaf of bread thrown into a bowl 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,... | |
 | 1838 - 274 pàgines
...describe the manner in which it acted upon the lava, it was like a loaf of bread thrown into a bowl of very thick honey, which gradually involves itself...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... | |
 | 1838 - 272 pàgines
...describe the manner in which it acted upon the lava, it was like a loaf of bread thrown into a bowl of very thick honey, which gradually involves itself...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... | |
 | 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 in 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... 
