I visited the great crater in the beginning of winter, (December 1st, 1828,) I found the crevices in the interior encrusted with thick ice, and in some cases hot vapours were streaming out between masses of ice and the rugged and steep walls of the crater.... Principles of geology - Side 235av sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1840Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
| 1832 - 852 sider
...consolidated over a glacier at the height of 10,000 feet above the level of the sea, the ice might endure as long as the snows of Mont Blanc, unless melted by volcanic heat from below. UNITED STATES. It has been estimated that seven hundren thousand children are born in the United States... | |
| 1831 - 602 sider
...at the height often thousand feet above the level of the sea, we may readily conceive that the ice would endure as long as the snows of Mont Blanc, unless melted by a volcanic heat from below. When I visited the great crater in the beginning of winter (1828), I found... | |
| 1830 - 482 sider
...at the height of ten thousand feet above the level of the lea, we may readily conceive that the ice would endure as long as the snows of Mont Blanc, unless...visited the great crater in the beginning of winter (1828), I found the crevices in the interior encrusted with thick icer and in some cases hot vapours... | |
| 1831 - 460 sider
...at the height of ten thousand feet above the level of the sea, we may readily conceive that the ice would endure as long as the snows of Mont Blanc, unless...great crater in the beginning of winter, (December 1, 1828,) I found the crevices in the interior encrusted with thick ice, and in some cases hot vapours... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - 1832 - 634 sider
...consolidated, we may then readily conceive that a glacier thus protected at the height of ten thousand feet above the level of the sea, would endure as long...with thick ice, and in some cases hot vapours were streaming out between masses of ice and the rugged and steep walls of the crater. After the discovery... | |
| 1833 - 1092 sider
...had consolidated, wo may then readily conceive, that a glacier thus protected at the height of 10,000 feet above the level of the sea would endure as long...Blanc, unless melted by volcanic heat from below.' Every one is aware that, in lofty mountains, the temperature of the air diminishes as the elevation... | |
| Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1838 - 372 sider
...have flowed over the whole without affecting the ice beneath, which at such a height (ten thousand feet above the level of the sea) would endure as long...Blanc, unless melted by volcanic heat from below.* 21. HERCULANEUM AND POMPEII. — But all these phenomena are far surpassed in interest by the wonderful... | |
| C. B. - 1853 - 400 sider
...it. I visited the greater crater in December, 1828. I found the crevices in the interior incrusted with thick ice, and in some cases hot vapours were...ice and the rugged and steep walls of the crater."* If this mass of ice could have been preserved at an elevation of about 10,000 feet with an incandescent... | |
| George Charles Wallich - 1862 - 194 sider
...lower part of the lava had consolidated, we may then readily conceive that a glacier thus protected would endure as long as the snows of Mont Blanc, unless melted by volcanic heat from below." In the recent eruption of Kotla these several conditions would seem to have been fully answered. It... | |
| George Dennis - 1864 - 828 sider
...had consolidated, we may then readily conceive that a glacier thus protected, at the height of 10,000 feet above the level of the sea, would endure as long...Blanc, unless melted by volcanic heat from below." Torre del Filosofo. — On descending the mountain the tourist can visit the so-called " Philosopher's... | |
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