 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 396 pagine
...probably fifty feet square, and 159 feet high, began to leave the parent ice at the top, and, •leaning majestically forward, with an accelerated velocity...which it plunged was converted into an appearance of vapor or smoke, like that from a furious cannonading. The noise was equal to that of thunder, which... | |
 | Hugh Murray - 1837 - 612 pagine
...column, probably 50 feet square and 150 feet high, began to leave the parent ice at the top ; and leaning majestically forward, with an accelerated velocity...smoke, like that from a furious cannonading. The noise wag equal to that of thunder, which it nearly resembled. The column which fell was nearly square, and... | |
 | Natural phenomena - 1846 - 142 pagine
...square, and one hundred and fifty feet high, began to leave the parent ice at the top, and, leaning majestically forward, with an accelerated velocity,...furious cannonading. The noise was equal to that of thunder, which it nearly resembled. The column which fell was nearly square, and in magnitude resembled... | |
 | Frozen stream - 1846 - 162 pagine
...square, and one hundred and fifty feet high, began to leave the parent ice at the top, and, leaning majestically forward, with an accelerated velocity,...furious cannonading. The noise was equal to that of thunder, which it nearly resembled. The column which fell was nearly square, and in magnitude resembled... | |
 | 1848 - 690 pagine
...feet high. It descended with an awful crash, like that of thunder, and broke into a thousand pieces. " The water into which it plunged was converted into an appearance of vapor or smoke like that from a furious cannonading." Mrs. Somerville concludes her description of... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 602 pagine
...feet high. It descended with an awful crash, like that of thunder, and broke into a thousand pieces. " The water into which it plunged was converted into an appearance of vapor or smoke like that from a furious cannonading." Mrs. Somerville concludes her description of... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1849 - 396 pagine
...square, and one hundred and fifty feet high, began to leave the parent ice at the top, and leaning majestically forward, with an accelerated velocity...furious cannonading. The noise was equal to that of thunder, which it nearly resembled. The column which fell was nearly square, and in magnitude resembled... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1854 - 652 pagine
...square, and one hundred and fifty feet high, began to leave the parent ice at the top, and, leaning majestically forward, with an accelerated velocity,...furious cannonading. The noise was equal to that of thunder, which it nearly resembled. The column which fell was nearly square, and in magnitude resembled... | |
 | Charles Tomlinson - 1862 - 284 pagine
...hundred and fifty feet high, and fifty feet square, began to leave the parent ice at the top, and leaning majestically forward, with an accelerated velocity,...or smoke, like that from a furious cannonading. The berg, in this instance, fell into a thousand pieces, and was therefore not a fair type of that gentler... | |
 | REV. CHARLES BULLOCK - 1867 - 728 pagine
...square, and one hundred and fifty feet high, began to leave the parent ice at the top, and, leaning majestically forward, with an accelerated velocity...furious cannonading. The noise was equal to that of thunder, which it nearly resembled. The column which fell was nearly square, and in magnitude resembled... | |
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... towards it with a view of proceeding close to its base, I observed a few little pieces fall from the top, and while my eye was fixed upon- the place, an immense column, probably fifty feet square, and one hundred and fifty feet high, began to leave... 
