 Shortly after the shock, a great wave was seen from the distance of three or four miles, approaching in the middle of the bay with a smooth outline; but along the shore it tore up cottages and trees, as it swept onwards with irresistible force.  The Army and Navy Magazine - Página 10231881Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Charles Darwin - 1846 - 716 páginas
...had the means of providing food for the day. Earthquakes alone are sufficient to destroy the II. 4 Shortly after the shock, a great wave was seen from...of white breakers, which rushed up to a height of 23 vertical feet above the highest spring-tides. Their force must have been prodigious; for at the... | |
 | Ebenezer Meriam - 1847 - 224 páginas
...uncontrolled. In every large town famine would go forth, pestilence and death following in its train. Shortly after the shock a great wave was seen from...of white breakers, which rushed up to a height of 23 vertical feet above the highest spring tides, their force must have been prodigious ; for at the... | |
 | Hugo Reid - 1850 - 156 páginas
...themselves ruined, and few had the means of providing food for the day." " Shortly after the shook, a great wave was seen, from the distance of three...trees, as it swept onwards with irresistible force. Aft the head of the bay it broke in a fearful line of white breakers, which rushed up to a height of... | |
 | 1854 - 524 páginas
...a moment into dust, — are also ably Aug. — VOL. ci. NO. cccciv. 2 H and strikingly described. " Shortly after the shock, a great wave was seen from...trees, as it swept onwards with irresistible force." There were some incidents worthy of remark attendant upon an earthquake which took place in Antigua... | |
 | 1854 - 598 páginas
...Shortly after the shock, a great wave was seen from the distfmce of three or four miles, approaching the middle of the bay with a smooth outline ; but...trees, as it swept onwards with irresistible force." There were some incidents worthy of remark attendant upon an earthquake which took place in Antigua... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1854 - 608 páginas
...labor of generations, crumbled in a moment into dust, — are also ably and strikingly described. " Shortly after the shock, a great wave was seen from the distance of three or four miles, approaching the middle of the bay with a smooth outline ; but along the shore it tore up cottages and trees, as... | |
 | John White - 1866 - 328 páginas
...at the distance of three or four miles, approaching the shore. At the head of the Bay of Conception it broke in a fearful line of white breakers, which rushed up to a height of twenty-three feet above the highest spring-tides. The force of this wave was so great that a cannon at the fort,... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1924 - 1114 páginas
...Voyage of the Beagle, " contain some of his remarks on the earthquake on the coast of Chile in 1835. " Shortly after the shock a great wave was seen, from...in a fearful line of white breakers, which rushed to a height of 23 vertical feet above the highest spring tides. The first wave was followed by two... | |
 | François Quesnel - 1869 - 360 páginas
...du verbe s'en aller dans ses formes affirmative et négative. TRANSLATE INTO FRENCH. A GREAT WAVE. A great wave was seen from the distance of three or four miles, approaching in the middle of the bay1 with a smooth 2 outline,3 but along4 the shore it tore up5 cottages and trees, as it swept onwards6... | |
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