 ... it with the greatest precision, and the delusion of its being a sheet of water was thus rendered still more perfect. I had often seen the mirage in Syria and Egypt, but always found it of a whitish colour, rather resembling a morning mist, seldom...  The Dublin review - Page 5261837Full view - About this book
 | John Lewis Burckhardt - 1819 - 654 lehte
...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...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
...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 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
...shadows of the mountains, which bordered the horizon, were reflected by it with the greatest precision, and the delusion of its being a 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
...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...and had the most perfect resemblance to water. The great dryness of the earth and air, in this desart, may be the cause of the difference. (The appearance... | |
 | James Rennie - 1829 - 440 lehte
...shadows of the mountains which bordered the horizon were reflected in it with the greatest precision, and the delusion of its being a sheet of water was...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
...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...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
...shadows of the mountains, which bordered the horizon, were reflected by it with the greatest precision; and the delusion of its being a 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... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - 1832 - 430 lehte
...shadows of the mountains that bordered the horizon were reflected on it with the greatest precision, and the delusion of its being a 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.... | |
 | Selina Martin - 1832 - 242 lehte
...shadows of the mountains which bordered the horizon were reflected in it with the greatest precision, and the delusion of its being a 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,... | |
 | 1834 - 498 lehte
...shadows of the mountains, which bordered the horizons, were reflected in it with the greatest precision, and the delusion of its being a sheet of water was...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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