 ... which extended itself at the top into a sort of branches ; occasioned, I imagine, either by a sudden gust of air that impelled it, the force of which decreased as it advanced upwards, or the cloud itself being pressed back again by its own weight,...  The Percy Family: The Baltic to Vesuvius - Page 203by Daniel Clarke Eddy - 1868 - 256 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - American essays - 1900 - 450 pages
...the top into a sort of branches; occasioned, I imagine, either by a sudden gust of air that impelled it, the force of which decreased as it advanced upwards,...sometimes bright and sometimes dark and spotted, as if it was either more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This extraordinary phenomenon excited... | |
 | Literature - 1901 - 660 pages
...top into a sort of branches, — occasioned, I imagine, either by a sudden gust of air that impelled it, the force of which decreased as it advanced upwards,...pressed back again by its own weight, expanded in the manner I have mentioned ; it appeared sometimes bright and sometimes dark and spotted, according... | |
 | Thomas George Bonney - Geology - 1902 - 638 pages
...trunk, which extended itself at the top into a sort of branches. ... It appeared sometimes bright, sometimes dark and spotted, as it was more or less impregnated with earth and cinders." Presently a continuous shower of dust and ash and blocks of stone began to fall over all the country... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - World history - 1904 - 730 pages
...fleet. This cloud continued arising in an uniform column of smoke, which varied in brightness, and was dark and spotted, as it was more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. Having attained an immense elevation, expanding itself, it spread out horizontally, in form like the... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - Astronomy - 1904 - 462 pages
...pressed back by its own weight, expanded in this manner. The cloud appeared sometimes bright, at others dark and spotted, as it was more or less impregnated with earth and cinders." These extraordinary appearances attracted the curiosity of the elder Pliny. He ordered a small vessel... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - World History - 1904 - 714 pages
...fleet. This cloud continued arising in an uniform column of smoke, which varied in brightness, and was dark and spotted, as it was more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. Having attained an immense elevation, expanding itself, it spread out horizontally, in form like the... | |
 | Pliny (the Younger.) - 1905 - 502 pages
...the top into a sort of branches ; occasioned, I imagine, either by a sudden gust of air that impelled it, the force of which decreased as it advanced upwards,...pressed back again by its own weight, expanded in the manner I have mentioned; it appeared sometimes bright and sometimes dark and spotted, according... | |
 | Charles Francis Horne - Great events by famous historians - 1905 - 440 pages
...either by a sudden gust of air that impelled it, the force of which decreased as it advanced upward, or the cloud itself, being pressed back again by its own weight, expanded in the manner I have mentioned ; it appeared sometimes bright and sometimes dark and spotted, according... | |
 | Richard Garnett - Readers - 1905 - 494 pages
...to a great height in the form of a trunk, which extended itself at the top into a sort of branches. It appeared sometimes bright and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was either more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This extraordinary phenomenon excited my uncle... | |
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