During the whole day's march we were surrounded on all sides by lakes of mirage, called by the Arabs, Serab. Its colour was of the purest azure, and so clear that the shadows of the mountains which bordered the horizon were reflected in it with the greatest... The Dublin Review - Page 524redigeeritud poolt - 1837Full view - About this book
| John Lewis Burckhardt - 1819 - 654 lehte
...azure, and so clear that the shadows of the mountains which bordered the horizon were reflected on it with the greatest precision, and the delusion of...and had the most perfect resemblance to water. The great dryness of the air and earth in this desert may be the cause of the difference. The appearance... | |
| 1820 - 612 lehte
...azure, and so clear that the shadows of the mountains which bordered the horizon were reflected on it with the greatest precision, and the delusion of...sheet of water was thus rendered still more perfect. 1 had often seen the mirage in Syria and Kcypt, but always found it of a whitish colour, rather resembling... | |
| Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1823 - 512 lehte
...azure, and so clear that the shadows of the mountains, which bordered the horizon, were reflected by it with the greatest precision, and the delusion of...sheet of water was thus rendered still more perfect. 1 had often seen the mirage in Syria and Egypt, but always found it of a whitish colour, rather resembling... | |
| 1827 - 462 lehte
...azure, and so clear, that the shadows of the mountains which bordered the horizon, were reflected on it with the greatest precision, and the delusion of its being a sheet of water was rendered still more perfect. I had often seen the mirage in Syria and Egypt, but always found it of... | |
| James Rennie - 1829 - 438 lehte
...spots of a sandy or gravelly plain. Burckhardt has described the mirage with his usual felicityt:—" During the whole day's march we were surrounded on...steady on the plain, but in continual vibration; but « Lyon, p. 347. t Nubia, p. 193. here it was very different,'.and had the most perfect resemblance... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 824 lehte
...azure, and so clear that the shadows of the mountains which bordered the horizon were reflected on it with the greatest precision, and the delusion of...Syria and Egypt, but always found it of a whitish color, rattier resembling a morning mist, seldom lying steady on the plain, but in continual vibration,... | |
| Robert Smith - 1829 - 432 lehte
...azure, and so clear that the shadows of the mountains, which bordered the horizon, were reflected by it with the greatest precision; and the delusion of...sheet of water was thus rendered still more perfect. 1 had often seen the mirage in Syria and Egypt, but always found it of a whitish colour, rather resembling... | |
| Selina Martin - 1832 - 242 lehte
...the whole day's march we were surrounded on all sides by lakes of Mirage, called by the Arab serdb. Its colour was of the purest azure, and so clear that...sheet of water, was thus rendered still more perfect. There was at one time about a dozen of these false lakes around us, each separated from the other,... | |
| James Augustus St. John - 1832 - 430 lehte
...purest azure, and so clear that the shadows of the mountains that bordered the horizon were reflected on it with the greatest precision, and the delusion of...sheet of water was thus rendered still more perfect." This mockwater, however, only served to heighten the terrors which the scarcity of real water excited.... | |
| 1834 - 498 lehte
...was of the purest azure, and so clear that the shadows of the mountains, which bordered the horizons, were reflected in it with the greatest precision,...resembling a morning mist, seldom lying steady on the piain, but in continual vibration ; but liere it was very different, and had the most perfect resemblance... | |
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