 | Sir David Brewster, Robert Jameson - 1822 - 458 páginas
...inches by 6£ feet, and 4 feet thick, was hurried up the acclivity to a distance of 150 feet. Such is the devastation that has taken place amidst this...Skerry of Eshaness, formidably rising from the sea, and shewing on its westerly side a steep precipice, against which all the force of the Atlantic seems to... | |
 | Samuel Hibbert - 1822 - 670 páginas
...inches by 6£ feet, and 4 feet thick, was hurried up the acclivity to a distance of 150 feet. Such is the devastation that has taken place amidst this...Skerry of Eshaness, formidably rising from the sea, and shewing on its westerly side a steep precipice, against which all the force of the Atlantic seems to... | |
 | Sir David Brewster, Robert Jameson - 1822 - 456 páginas
...feet thick, was hurried up the acclivity to a distance of 150 feet. Such is the devastation that lias taken place amidst this wreck of nature. Close to...Skerry of Eshaness, formidably rising from the sea, and shewing on its westerly side a steep precipice, against which all the force of the Atlantic seems to... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 798 páginas
...thick, wai hurried up the acclivity to a distance of 150 feet. Such U the devastation that haï lakes place amidst this wreck of nature. Close to the Isle...Eshaness, formidably rising from the sea, and showing on ils westerly side a steep precipice, against which all the force of the Atlantic seems to have been... | |
 | Natural phenomena - 1846 - 142 páginas
...fragments, some of which were carried still farther, from thirty to a hundred and twenty feet. Such is the devastation that has taken place amidst this...force of the Atlantic seems to have been expended : it aifords a refuge for myriads of kittiwakes, whose shrill cries, mingling with the dashing of the waters,... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1853 - 646 páginas
...fragments, some of which were carriöd still farther, from thirty to a hundred and twenty feet. Such is the devastation that has taken place amidst this...formidably rising from the sea, and showing on its westerly skie a steep precipice, against which all the force of the Atlantic seems to have been expended : it... | |
 | 1862 - 610 páginas
...feet. A block 9 ft. 2 in. by 6^ ft. and 4 ft. thick, was hurried up the acclivity to a distance of 1 50 feet. ' Such,' he adds, ' is the devastation that...Atlantic seems to have been expended : it affords a refuge for myriads of kittiwakes, whose shrill cries, mingling with the dashing of the waters, wildly... | |
 | Robert Cowie - 1874 - 374 páginas
...been removed ; and goes on to remark — " Such is the devastation that has taken place amidst the wreck of nature. Close to the Isle of Stenness is...Atlantic seems to have been expended ; it affords a refuge for myriads of kittiwakes, whose shrill cries, mingling with the dashing of the waters, wildly... | |
 | Robert Cowie - 1874 - 374 páginas
...been removed ; and goes on to remark — " Such is the devastation that has taken place amidst the wreck of nature. Close to the Isle of Stenness is...Atlantic seems to have been expended ; it affords a refuge for myriads of kittiwakes, whose shrill cries, mingling with the dashing of the waters, wildly... | |
 | Robert Cowie - 1879 - 262 páginas
...been removed ; and goes on to remark — " Such is the devastation that has taken place amidst the wreck of nature. Close to the Isle of Stenness is...Atlantic seems to have been expended ; it affords a refuge for myriads of kittiwakes, whose shrill cries, mingling with the dashing of the waters, wildly... | |
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is the devastation that has taken place amidst this wreck of nature. Close to the Isle of Stenness is the Skerry of Eshaness, formidably rising from the sea, and showing on its westerly side a steep precipice, against which all the force of the Atlantic... 