 The valleys which furrow the flank of Chimborazo are in keeping with its colossal size. Narrower, but deeper than those of the Alps, the mind swoons and sinks in the effort to comprehend their grim majesty. The mountain appears to have been broken to...  The American Naturalist - Page 3571871Full view - About this book
 | Charles Darwin - 1846 - 716 lehte
...in the Cordillera of the Andes, the evident marks where stupendous mountains have been broken into pieces like so much thin crust, and the strata thrown on their vertical edges; but never did any scene like these " streams of stones" so forcibly convey to my mind the idea of a... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1851 - 706 lehte
...seen, in the Cordillera of the Andes, the evident marks where stupendous mountains had been broken into pieces like so much thin crust, and the strata thrown on their vertical edges, no scene had ever impressed upon him, like these " streams of stones," the idea of a convulsion, without... | |
 | James Orton - 1870 - 378 lehte
...found it made the plumb-line deviate 1" or 8". The valleys which furrow the flank of Chimborazo are in keeping with its colossal size. Narrower, but deeper...lower world. The deepest valley in Europe, that of the Ordesa in the Pyrenees, is 3200 feet deep ; but here are rents in the side of Chimborazo in which Vesuvius... | |
 | James Orton - 1870 - 372 lehte
...found it made the plumb-line deviate 7" or 8". The valleys which furrow the flank of Chimborazo are in keeping with its colossal size. Narrower, but deeper...lower world. The deepest valley in Europe, that of the Ordesa in the Pyrenees, is 3200 feet deep ; but here are rents in the side of Chimborazo in which Vesuvius... | |
 | James Orton - 1870 - 358 lehte
...found it made the plumb-line deviate 7/x or 8/x. The valleys which furrow the flank of Chimborazo are in keeping with its colossal size. Narrower, but deeper...dark chasms, that seem to lead to the confines of the lowrer world. The deepest valley in Europe, that of the Ordesa in the Pyrenees, is 3200 feet deep ;... | |
 | James Orton - 1870 - 362 lehte
...found it made the plumb-line deviate 1" or 8/x. The valleys which furrow the flank of Chimborazo are in keeping with its colossal size. Narrower, but deeper...mountain appears to have been broken to pieces like so nmch thin crust, and the strata thrown on their vertical edges, revealing deep, dark chasms, that seem... | |
 | 1871 - 1016 lehte
...8". , The valleys which furrow the flank of Chimborazo are In keeping with Its colossal sizeNarrower, but deeper than those of the Alps, the mind swoons...strata thrown on their vertical edges, revealing deep, dork chasms, that seem to lead to the confines of the lower world. The deepest valley In Europe, that... | |
 | 1871 - 804 lehte
...It made the plumb-line deviate 7' ' or 8 '. The valleys which furrow the flank of Chliuboriizo are in keeping with Its colossal size* Narrower, but deeper than those of the Alps, the mind swoons aud sinks In the effort to comprehend ilieir grim majesty. The mountain appears to have been broken... | |
 | 1871 - 812 lehte
...found it made the plumb-line deviate "'' or 8 ". The valleys which furrow the flank of Chhuborazo are In keeping with Its colossal size. Narrower, but deeper than those of the Alps, the ndnd swoons and sinks in the effort to comprehend their grim majesty. The mountain appears to have... | |
 | James Orton - 1875 - 672 lehte
...found it made the plumb-line deviate 7" or 8". The valleys which furrow the flank of Chimborazo are in keeping with its colossal size. Narrower, but deeper...lower world. The deepest valley in Europe, that of the Ordesa in the Pyrenees, is 3200 feet deep ; but here are rents in the side of Chimborazo in which Vesuvius... | |
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