 | 1887 - 606 páginas
...heard over 1,100 miles in one direction, and over 900 in a nearly opposite one. Whirlwinds carried up men, horses, cattle, and whatever else came within their influence, into the air ; large trees were torn up by the roots and covered the sea with floating timber; streams of lava flowed... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1832 - 634 páginas
...twelve thousand, only twenty-six individuals survived on the island. Violent whirlwinds carried up men, horses, cattle, and whatever else came within...Tomboro mountain, reached the sea. So heavy was the fail of ashes, that they broke into the Resident's house at Bima, forty miles east of the volcano,... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1837 - 464 páginas
...twelve thousand, only twenty-six individuals survived on the island. Violent whirlwinds carried up men, horses, cattle, and whatever else came within...covered by lava, several streams of which, issuing * Von Hoff, vol. ii. p. 454. ; for further particulars, see book iii. chap. xiv. from the crater of... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1837 - 568 páginas
...twelve thousand, only twenty-six individuals survived on the island. Violent whirlwinds carried up men, horses, cattle, and whatever else came within...the roots, and covered the whole sea with floating timber.t Great tracts of land were covered by lava, several streams of which, issuing from the crater... | |
 | Maria Hack - 1839 - 464 páginas
...unusual circumstances. In some parts of the island, violent whirlwinds carried up men, horses, and cattle into the air, tore up the largest trees by the roots, and covered the sea with floating timber. Large tracts of land were covered with lava, which issued from the crater... | |
 | John Pye Smith - 1839 - 464 páginas
...for three months. Great tracts of land were buried under the lava. " Violent whirlwinds carried up men, horses, cattle, and whatever else came within their influence, into the LECT. vni. air ; tore up the largest trees by the roots, and covered the whole sea with floating timber."*... | |
 | John Pye Smith - 1840 - 376 páginas
...continued for three months. Great tracts of land were buried under the lava. "Violent whirlwinds carried up men, horses, cattle, and whatever else came within...and covered the whole sea with floating timber."* The terrible sound of the explosions was heard over a range of 1500 miles. The ashes ejected reached... | |
 | John Pye Smith - 1840 - 566 páginas
...continued for three months. Great tracts of land were buried under the lava. "Violent whirlwinds carried up men, horses, cattle, and whatever else came within...and covered the whole sea with floating timber."* The shocks were felt to the distance of 1000 miles; and the terrible sound of the explosions was heard... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1840 - 514 páginas
...2,000, in the province of Tomboro, only twenty-six individuals survived. Violent whirlwinds carried up men, horses, cattle, and whatever else came within...the roots, and covered the whole sea with floating timber.f Great tracts of land were covered by lava, several streams of which, issuing from the crater... | |
 | John Pye Smith - 1843 - 576 páginas
...for three months. Great tracts of land were buried under the lava. " Violent whirlwinds carried up men, horses, cattle, and whatever else came within...and covered the whole sea with floating timber."* The shocks were felt to the distance of 1000 miles ; and the terrible sound of the explosions was heard... | |
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Violent whirlwinds carried up men, horses, cattle, and whatever else came within their influence, into the air ; tore up the largest trees by the roots, and covered the whole sea with floating timber... 
