 | Thomas Henry Dyer - 1867 - 626 pàgines
...opportunity to gain a momentary view down this aperture, and perceived nothing but the glare of the red-hot lava that passed beneath it. We then returned to examine...but bodies of sixty, seventy, and eighty pounds were scon to form a kind of bed >in the surface of the lava, and float away with it. A stone of three hundredweight,... | |
 | Thomas Henry Dyer - 1867 - 630 pàgines
...opportunity to gain a momentary view down this aperture, and perceived nothing but tho glare of the red-hot lava that passed beneath it. We then returned to examine...pounds weight, made little or no impression even at tho source; but bodies of sixty, seventy, and eighty pounds wore seen to form a kind of bod on tho... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1868 - 822 pàgines
...current of lava would produce no impression. I was soon convinced of the contrary. Light bodies, indeed, of five, ten, and fifteen pounds ' weight, made little...and eighty pounds were seen to form a kind of bed on the surface of the lava, and float away with it. A stone of three hundredweight, that had been thrown... | |
 | 1868 - 850 pàgines
...no impression. I was soon convinced of the contrary. Light bodies, indeed, of five, ten, and (ifieen pounds' weight, made little or no impression, even...and eighty pounds were seen to form a kind of bed on the surface of the lava, and float away with it. A stone of three hundred weight, that had been... | |
 | Thomas Henry Dyer - 1871 - 624 pàgines
...opportunity to gain a momentary view down this aperture, and perceived nothing but the glare of the red-hot lava that passed beneath it. We then returned to examine...sixty, seventy, and eighty pounds were seen to form a land of bod on the surface of the lava, and float away with it. A stone of three hundredweight, that... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1871 - 348 pàgines
...current of lava would produce no impression. I was soon convinced of the contrary. Light bodies, indeed,, of five, ten, and fifteen pounds' weight, made little...and eighty pounds were seen to form a kind of bed on the surface of the lava, and floated away with it. A stone of three hundred-weight, that had been... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1872 - 714 pàgines
...imitate, and glowing with all the splendour of the sun.' — ' Sir William Hamilton,' he continues, ' had conceived that no stones thrown upon a current of lava would make any impression. I was soon convinced of the contrary. Light bodies, indeed, of five, ten, and fifteen pounds' weight,... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1873 - 340 pàgines
...current of lava would produce no impression. I was soon convinced of the contrary. Light bodies, indeed, of five, ten, and fifteen pounds' weight, made little...and eighty pounds were seen to form a kind of bed on the surface of the lava, and float away with it. A stone of three hundredweight, that had been thrown... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1887 - 364 pàgines
...current of lava would produce no impression. I was soon convinced of the contrary. Light bodies, indeed, of five, ten, and fifteen pounds' weight, made little...and eighty pounds were seen to form a kind of bed on the surface of the lava, and floated away with it. A stone of three hundred-weight, that had been... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1904 - 462 pàgines
...current lava would produce no impression. I was soon convinced of the contrary. Light bodies, indeed, of five, ten, and fifteen pounds' weight, made little...and eighty pounds were seen to form a kind of bed on the surface of the lava, and floated away with it. A stone of three hundredweight, that had been... | |
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Hamilton had conceived that no stones thrown upon a current of lava would make any impression. We were soon convinced of the contrary. Light bodies of five, ten, and fifteen pounds weight made little or no impression even at the source ; but bodies of... 
