 ... and black pieces of burning rock. They were likewise in danger not only of being aground by the sudden retreat of the sea, but also from the vast fragments which rolled down from the mountain and obstructed all the shore. Here he stopped to consider...  The Percy Family: The Baltic to Vesuvius - Page 202by Daniel Clarke Eddy - 1868 - 256 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Characters and characteristics - 1804 - 560 pages
...which grew thicker and hotter the nearer he approached, fell into the ships, together with pumicestones and black pieces of burning rock: they were likewise...down from the mountain, and obstructed all the shore. Here he stopped to consider, whether he should return? to which the pilot advising him, " Fortune,"... | |
 | Pliny (the Younger.) - Lawyers - 1807 - 424 pages
...best falls in with the context ; it it therefore adopted in the translation. ther with pumice-stones, and black pieces of burning rock ; they were likewise...from the vast fragments which rolled down from the mountains, and obstructed all the shore. Here he stopped, to consider whether he should return back... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 540 pages
...grew thicker and hotter the nearer he approached, fell into the ships, together with pumice-stonei and black pieces of burning rock : they were likewise...down from the mountain, and obstructed all the shore. Here he stopped to consider, whether he should return ; to which the pilot advising him, " Fortune,"... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 316 pages
...which grew thicker and hotter the more he advanced, fell into the ships, together with pumice-stones, and black pieces of burning rock ; they were, likewise,...from the vast fragments which rolled down from the mountains, and obstructed all toe shore. Here he stopped, to consider whether he should return back... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 592 pages
...pumice-stones, and black pieces uf burning rock ; they were likewise in danger not only of being a- ground by the sudden retreat of the sea, but also from the...down from the mountain, and obstructed all the shore. Here be stopped to consider whether he should return back again, to which the pilot advising him ;... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - Astronomy - 1815 - 568 pages
...pumice-stones, and black pieces of burning rock ; they were likewise in danger not only of being a- ground by the sudden retreat of the sea, but also from the vast fragments which roiled down from the mountain, and obstructed all the shore. Here he stopped to consider whether he... | |
 | Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - Natural history - 1818 - 590 pages
...black pieces of burning rock ; they were likewise in danger not only of being a- ground by the sadden retreat of the sea, but also from the vast fragments which rolled clown from the mountain, and obstructed all the shore. Here be stopped to consider whether he should... | |
 | Charles Room - Herculaneum (Extinct city) - 1828 - 108 pages
...grew thicker and hotter the nearer he approached, fell into the ships, together with pumice-stones and pieces of burning rock. They were likewise in danger,...down from the mountain, and obstructed all the shore. Here he stopped to consider whether he should return back again ; to which the pilot advising him,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 pages
...black pieces of burning rock ; they were likewise in danger not only of being a-ground by the suddfii retreat of the sea, but also from the vast fragments...down from the mountain, and obstructed all the shore. Here he stopped to consider whether he should return hack again, to which the pilot advising him :... | |
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