 From many places of this space issue volumes of sulphureous smoke, which being much heavier than the circumambient air, instead of rising in it, as smoke generally does, immediately on its getting out of the crater, rolls down the side of the mountain...  Petralogy: A Treatise on Rocks - Page 363by John Pinkerton - 1811Full view - About this book
 | Patrick Brydone - Malta - 1773 - 394 pages
...till coming to that part of O 2 the the atmofphere of the fame fpecific gravity with itfelf, it fhoots off horizontally, and forms a large track in the air, according to the direction of the wind ; which, happily for us, carried it exactly in the oppofite fide to that where we were placed. The... | |
 | Patrick Brydone - Malta - 1774 - 412 pages
...torrent, till coming to that part of the atmofphere of the fame fpecific gravity with itfelf, it fhoots off horizontally, and forms a large track in the air, according to the direction of the wind ; which, happily for us, carried it exactly to the fide oppofite to that where we were placed. The... | |
 | Several Hands - 1774 - 622 pages
...torrent, till coming to that part of the atmofphcre of the fame fprciSc gravity with itfelf, it {hoots off horizontally, and forms a large track in the air, according to the direction of the wind ; which, happily for us, carried it exaflly in the oppofite fide to that where we were placed. The... | |
 | Books - 1774 - 690 pages
...till coming to list part of the atmofphere of the fame fpecific gravity 1 4 *"h with itfelf, it fhoots off horizontally, and forms a large track in the air, according to the direction or' the wind ; which, happily for us, carried it exaclly in the oppofite iide to that where we were... | |
 | 1788 - 742 pages
...torrent, till coming to that part of the atmofphere wnich-'is of the fame gravity with itfelf, it fhoots off horizontally, and forms a large track in the air, according to the direction of the wind. The crater is fo hot, that it is very dangerous, if not impoflible, to go down into it ; befides, the... | |
 | Patrick Brydone - 1788 - 290 pages
...to that part of the atmofphere of the fame fpecific gravity with itfelf, it moots off horizon tally, and forms a large track in the air, according to the direction of the wind. The crater is fo hot, that it is very dangerous, if not impoflible, to go down into it ; befides, the... | |
 | John Adams - Voyages and travels - 1792 - 382 pages
...till coming to that part of the atmofphere of the fame fpecific gravity with itk-ll', it fhoots oft' horizontally, and forms a large track in the air, according to the direction of the wind; which happily for us, carried it exactly to the fide oppofite to that where we were placed. The crater... | |
 | John Adams - Voyages and travels - 1816 - 346 pages
...tliat part of the atmosphere of ihe same specific gravity witli itsult', it shoois off lion/, intally. and forms a large track in the air, according to the direction of the wind; which, happily for us, carried it exactly to the side opposite to that where we were placed. The crater... | |
 | Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - Natural history - 1818 - 590 pages
...lo that part of the atmosphere of the same specific gravity with itself, it shoots off bori/ontally, and forms a large track in the air according to the...the smoke when seen by Count Borch, at the intervals v. hen the uir WHS calm, arose perpendicularly to a great height, and afterwards fell, like white fleeces,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 876 pages
...instead of ascending in it, roll down the side of the mountain, till, coining to a more dense atmosphere, it shoots off horizontally, And forms a large track...in the air, according to the direction of the wind ; which, happily for our traveller», carried it exactly to the side opposite to which they AET In... | |
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