| 1799 - 612 pages
...well as the pillars and ornaments, were all of the same transparent materials ; the points and spars of which, reflecting the rays of light from the lamps...hands, produced an effect equally novel and beautiful. Descending lower into the earth by mear.!) «f ladders, I fuur.J myself an immense hall or cavern of... | |
| 1799 - 612 pages
...well as the pillars and ornaments, were all of the same transparent materials ; the point* and bpars of which, reflecting the rays of light from the lamps...which the guides held in their hands, produced an tffVcl equally novel and beautiful. Descending lower into the earth by means of ladders, I found myself... | |
| Literature, Modern - 1800 - 620 pages
...the folid rhafs. The images which ado'rn the altars, as well as the pillars and ornaments, were all of the fame tranfparent materials ; the points and...hands» produced an effect equally novel and beautiful. Defcending lower into the earth by means of ladders, I found myfelf in an immenfe hall or cavern of... | |
| Edmund Butcher - 1805 - 482 pages
...well as the pillars and ornaments, were all of the same transparent materials : the points and spars of which', reflecting the rays of light from the lamps...hands, produced an effect equally novel and beautiful. Descending lower irtto the earth by means of ladders, I found myself in an immense hall or cavern of... | |
| William Phillips - Geology - 1816 - 222 pages
...transparent material; the points and spars of which, reflecting the rays of light from the lamps wbich the guides held in their hands, produced an effect equally novel and beautiful. Descending lower into the earth, by means of ladders, I found myself in an immense hall or.cavcrn of... | |
| William Phillips - Geology - 1826 - 506 pages
...well as the pillars and ornaments, were all of the same transparent material ; the points and spars of which, reflecting the rays of light from the lamps...hands, produced an effect equally novel and beautiful. Descending lower into the earth by means of ladders, I found myself in an immense hall or cavern of... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 424 pages
...well as the pillars and ornaments, were all of the same transparent materials ; the points and spars of which, reflecting the rays of light from the lamps...hands, produced an effect equally novel and beautiful. Descending lower into the earth, by means of ladders, I found myself in an immense hall or cavern of... | |
| Anne Wright - Geology - 1853 - 274 pages
...well as the pillars and ornaments, were all of the same transparent material; the points and spars of which reflecting the rays of light from the lamps...held in their hands, produced an effect equally novel as beautiful. Descending lower into the earth, by means of ladders, I found myself in an immense hall,... | |
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