 ... dwarf by their great size the nearer eminences into the mere protuberances of an uneven plain. Their mural character has the effect of adding to their apparent magnitude. Almost devoid of vegetation, we see them barred...  Transactions and Proceedings - Сторінка 100автори: Perthshire Society of Natural Science - 1893Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | Hugh Miller - 1858 - 440 стор.
...occurs chiefly in detached hills, it lends to the prospect features of surpassing boldness and grandeur. Rising over a basement of rugged gneiss hills, that present the appearance of a dark tumbling sea, \ve descry a line of stupendous pyramids from two to three thousand feet in height, which, though several... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1859 - 456 стор.
...occurs chiefly in detached hills, it lends to the prospect features of surpassing boldness and grandeur. Rising over a basement of rugged gneiss hills, that present the appearance of a dark 'umbling sea, we descry a line of stupendous pyramids from two to three thousand feet in height, which,... | |
 | 1870 - 442 стор.
...picturesque appearance may be partially conceived from Hugh Miller's graphic description of them : — " Rising over a basement of rugged gneiss hills, that...sea, we descry a line of stupendous pyramids, from 2000 to 3000 feet in height, which, though several miles distant in the background, dwarf, by their... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1870 - 446 стор.
...picturesque appearance may be partially conceived from Hugh Miller's graphic description of them : — "Rising over a basement of rugged gneiss hills, that present the appearance of a dark tumbling «-a, we descry a line of stupendous pyramids, from 2000 to 3000 feet in height, which, though several... | |
 | Geologists' Association - 1879 - 488 стор.
...is so truthful, and so poetic, that I venture to reproduce a portion, as transcribed by Murchison. " Rising over a basement of rugged gneiss hills, that...sea, we descry a line of stupendous pyramids, from 2,000 to 3,000 feet in height, which, though several miles distant in the background, dwarf by their... | |
 | Geological Society of London - 1859 - 864 стор.
...reproducing this woodcut from ' Siluria ' I willingly transcribe the words of that lamented author : — " Rising over a basement of rugged gneiss hills that present the appearance of a dark tumbling sea [the dark lower rocks of the preceding sketch], we descry a line of stupendous pyramids from 2000 to... | |
 | 1882 - 394 стор.
...of these alone, Hugh Miller describes them thus : — "Rising over a basement of rugged gneiss-hills that present the appearance of a dark tumbling sea, we descry a line of stupendous pyramids from 2000 to 3000 feet in height, which, though several miles distant in the back ground, dwarf by their... | |
 | 1882 - 434 стор.
...these alone, Hugh Miller describes them thus : — " Rising over a basement of rugged gneiss-hills that present the appearance of a dark tumbling sea, we descry a line of stupendous pyramids from 2000 to 3000 feet in height, which, though several miles distant in the back ground, dwarf by their... | |
 | 1882 - 434 стор.
...of these alone, Hugh Miller describes them thus : — "Rising over a basement of rugged gneiss-hills that present the appearance of a dark tumbling sea, we descry a line of stupendous pyramids from 2000 to 3000 feet in height, which, though several miles distant in the back ground, dwarf by their... | |
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