 | 1825 - 712 pages
...opportunity to gain a momentary view down this aperture, and perceived nothing but the glare of the red-hot lava that passed beneath it. We then returned to examine...Hamilton had conceived, that no stones thrown upon a cur* rent of lava would make any impression. We were soon convinced of the contrary. Light bodies of... | |
 | William Otter - Mineralogists - 1827 - 544 pages
...the red hot lava that passed beneath it. We then returned to examine the lava at its source. Sir \V. Hamilton had conceived that no stones thrown upon...made little or no impression even at the source, but bodirs of sixty, seventy, and eighty pounds, were seen to form a kind of bed upon the surface of the... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1835 - 472 pages
...can imitate, and glowing with all the splendour of the sun." " Sir William Hamilton," he continues, " had conceived that no stones thrown upon a current of lava would make any impression. I was soon convinced of the contrary. Light bodies, indeed, of five, ten, and fifteen pounds weight... | |
 | William Clarke (architect.) - Pompeii (Extinct city) - 1836 - 358 pages
...opportunity to gain a momentary view down this aperture, and perceived nothing but the glare of the red-hot lava that passed beneath it. We then returned to examine...and eighty pounds were seen to form a kind of bed on the surface of the lava, and float away with it. A stone of three hundred weight that had been thrown... | |
 | William Clarke (architect.) - Pompeii (Extinct city) - 1836 - 354 pages
...opportunity to gain a momentary view down this aperture, and perceived nothing but the glare of the red-hot lava that passed beneath it. We then returned to examine...and eighty pounds were seen to form a kind of bed on the surface of the lava, and float away with it. A stone of three hundred weight that had been thrown... | |
 | William Clarke (architect.) - Pompeii (Extinct city) - 1836 - 392 pages
...nothing but the glare of the red-hot lava that passed beneath it. We then returned to examine tlie lava at its source. Sir W. Hamilton had conceived...and eighty pounds were seen to form a kind of bed on the surface of the lava, and float away with it. A stone of three hundred weight that had been thrown... | |
 | 1838 - 544 pages
...opportunity to gain รค momentary view down this aperture, and perceived nothing but the glare of the red-hot lava that passed beneath it. We then returned to examine...Sir W. Hamilton had conceived that no stones thrown npon a current of lava would make any impression. We were soon convinced of the contrary. Light bodies... | |
 | Periodicals - 1838 - 274 pages
...opportunity to gain a momentary view down this aperture, and perceived nothing but the glare of the red-hot lava that passed beneath it. We then returned to examine...Sir W. Hamilton had conceived that no stones thrown npon a current of lava would make any impression. We were soon convinced of the contrary. Light bodies... | |
 | Henry Peter Dunster - Children's literature - 1850 - 372 pages
...opportunity to gain a momentary view down this aperture, and perceived nothing but the glare of the red-hot lava that passed beneath it. We then returned to examine...were soon convinced of the contrary. Light bodies of 5, 10, or 15 pounds weight, made little or no impression, even at the source; but bodies of 60, 70,... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1868 - 796 pages
...current of lava would produce no impression. I was soon convinced of the contrary. Light bodies, indeed, of five, ten, and fifteen pounds' weight, made little...and eighty pounds were seen to form a kind of bed on the surface of the lava, and float away with it. A stone of three hundredweight, that had been thrown... | |
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Hamilton had conceived that no stones thrown upon a current of lava would make any impression. We were soon convinced of the contrary. Light bodies of five, ten, and fifteen pounds weight made little or no impression even at the source ; but bodies of... 
