 ... canopy that enveloped us. At last, about four in the morning, I fancied some change was going to take place; the heavy wreaths of vapour seemed to be imperceptibly separating, and in a few minutes more the solid roof of grey suddenly split asunder,...  Hunt's Yachting Magazine - Page 2301858Full view - About this book
 | 1859 - 980 pages
...imperceptibly separating, and in a few minutes more the solid roof of gray suddenly split asunder, ant! I beheld through the gap — thousands of feet overhead,...long-sought-for mountain, actually tumbling down upon olir heads. Columbus could not have been more pleased when — afier nights of watching — he saw... | |
 | American periodicals - 1857 - 850 pages
...vapor Deemed to be imperceptibly separating, and in a few minutes more the solid roof of gray suddenly split asunder, and I beheld through the gap — thousands...anchorite catching a glimpse of the seventh heaven. There was at last the long-sought-for mountain actually tumbling down upon our heads. Columbus could not... | |
 | English literature - 1858 - 738 pages
...vapour seemed to be imperceptibly separating, and in a few minutes more the solid roof of grey suddenly split asunder, and I beheld through the gap — thousands...anchorite catching a glimpse of the seventh heaven ; but nil closes up in fog again, until a few minutes more, and slowly, silently, in a manner you could... | |
 | English literature - 1858 - 734 pages
...vapour seemed to be imperceptibly separating, and in a few minutes more the solid roof of grey suddenly split asunder, and I beheld through the gap — thousands...in the crystal sky — a cone of illuminated snow. nificence of his 6,870 feet, girdled by a single zone of pearly vapour, from underneath whose floating... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1858 - 432 pages
...vapour seemed to be imperceptibly separating, and in a few minutes more the solid roof of gray suddenly split asunder, and I beheld through the gap— thousands...in the crystal sky — a cone of illuminated snow. 4 You can imagine my delight. It was really that of an anchorite catching a glimpse of the seventh... | |
 | Philip Gilbert Hamerton - Art - 1862 - 474 pages
...vapour seemed to be imperceptibly separating, and in a few minutes more the solid roof of grey suddenly split asunder, and I beheld through the gap, thousands...suspended in the crystal sky, a cone of illuminated snow."—-Letters from High Latitudes. This effect did not, however, contain the contradiction that... | |
 | Wonders - 1866 - 400 pages
...vapour seemed to be imperceptibly separating, and in a few minutes more the solid roof of gray suddenly split asunder, and I beheld through the gap — thousands...in the crystal sky — a cone of illuminated snow. 220 JAN MA YEN. " You can imagine my delight. It was really that of an anchorite catching a glimpse... | |
 | 1875 - 852 pages
...imperceptibly separating ; ma few minutes more the solid roof of grey suddenly split asunder, and there, through the gap, thousands of feet overhead, as if...in the crystal sky — a cone of illuminated snow." This was the great Beerenberg, rising to a height of nearly 7,000 feet, "girdled by a single zone of... | |
 | 1875 - 842 pages
...imperceptibly separating ; in * few minutes moro the solid roof ot grey suddenly split asunder, and then*, through the gap, thousands of feet overhead, as if...suspended in the crystal sky — a cone of illuminated enow." This was the great Beerenberg, rising to a height of nearly 7,000 feet, " girdled by a single... | |
 | Polar voyages - 1876 - 714 pages
..." seemed to be imperceptibly separating; and in a few minutes more the solid roof of gray suddenly split asunder, and I beheld through the gap — thousands...suspended in the crystal sky — a cone of illuminated sky." Then again the clouds closed over it ; but separating a second time, they left " the mountain... | |
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