The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the Arts, 13. köideA. and C. Black, 1861 |
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Page 36
... night that the mountains , with all their clefts and divisions , were seen as distinctly at the distance of twenty miles as they were in the clearest day . Sometimes the flames were pure as the sun ; sometimes they were red , and at ...
... night that the mountains , with all their clefts and divisions , were seen as distinctly at the distance of twenty miles as they were in the clearest day . Sometimes the flames were pure as the sun ; sometimes they were red , and at ...
Page 37
... nights ; and it is related that showers of ashes from this eruption reached the town of Bergen in Norway , which is the greatest distance to which volcanic ashes were ever thrown from Iceland . " * The account in the " Islendingur ...
... nights ; and it is related that showers of ashes from this eruption reached the town of Bergen in Norway , which is the greatest distance to which volcanic ashes were ever thrown from Iceland . " * The account in the " Islendingur ...
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... nights ; and the flames and bombs gave so unearthly a character to the scene , that the poor inhabitants fancied the day of judgment had arrived , and that our globe was bursting into atoms . Over large tracts of country , the soil was ...
... nights ; and the flames and bombs gave so unearthly a character to the scene , that the poor inhabitants fancied the day of judgment had arrived , and that our globe was bursting into atoms . Over large tracts of country , the soil was ...
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... night presented one of the most awful and sublime spectacles imaginable . An un- remitting noise , like that produced by the discharge of heavy artillery , was heard from the volcano . A fiery column of variegated hues rose into the ...
... night presented one of the most awful and sublime spectacles imaginable . An un- remitting noise , like that produced by the discharge of heavy artillery , was heard from the volcano . A fiery column of variegated hues rose into the ...
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... night lighted up the whole of the Myrdal district , while the country to the east thereof was in darkness both day and night . " Ashes fell like rain " in Faröe , 300 miles distant , and subterranean noises were heard as far as the ...
... night lighted up the whole of the Myrdal district , while the country to the east thereof was in darkness both day and night . " Ashes fell like rain " in Faröe , 300 miles distant , and subterranean noises were heard as far as the ...
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