 | Science - 1829 - 428 pages
...severe shocks, but two series of concussions were particularly terrible, far more so than the rest. They remark, that the shocks were clearly distinguishable...which it was perpendicular. The latter were attended by the explosions and the terrible mixture of noises that preceded and accompanied the earthquakes... | |
 | Science - 1829 - 414 pages
...severe shocks, but two series of concussions were particularly terrible, far more so than the rest. They remark that the shocks were clearly distinguishable...which it was perpendicular. The latter were attended by the explosions and the terrible mixture of noises, that preceded and accompanied the earthquakes,... | |
 | History - 1834 - 560 pages
...; and retreated to the bosoms of men, their fellow sufferers in this general convulsion. There was a great number of severe shocks, but two series of...The latter were attended with the explosions, and terrible mixture of noises that preceded and accompanied the earthquakes in a louder degree, but were... | |
 | History - 1834 - 562 pages
...series of concussions were particularly terrible ; far more so than the rest. And they remark thnt the shocks were clearly distinguishable into two classes...The latter were attended with the explosions, and terrible mixture of noises that preceded and accompanied the earthquakes in a louder degree, but were... | |
 | Henry Howe - Mississippi River Valley - 1855 - 908 pages
...seVere shocks, but two series of concussions were particularly terrible; far more so than the rest. The shocks were clearly distinguishable into two classes...means so desolating and destructive as the other. Then the houses crumbled, the trees waved together, the ground sunk; while ever and anon vivid flashes... | |
 | Henry Howe - Mississippi River Valley - 1858 - 766 pages
...severe shocks, but two scries of concussions were particularly terrible; far more so than the rest. The shocks were clearly distinguishable into two classes:...it was perpendicular. The latter were attended with explosions, and the terrible mixture of noises that preceded and accompanied the earthquakes in a louder... | |
 | Henry Howe - Mississippi River Valley - 1858 - 592 pages
...severe shocks, but two series of concussions were particularly terrible ; far more so than the rest. The shocks were clearly distinguishable into two classes:...the motion was horizontal, and those in which it was pcrpeudicular. The latter were attended with explosions, and the terrible mixture of noises that preceded... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Northwest, Old - 1875 - 958 pages
...severe shocks, but the two series of concussions were particularly terrible; far more so than the rest. The shocks were clearly distinguishable into two classes...it was perpendicular. The latter were attended with explosions, and the terrible mixture of noises that preceded and accompanied the earthquakes in a louder... | |
 | Richard Atkinson Peacock - Earthquakes - 1883 - 96 pages
...white sand, so as to become uninhabitable. The water at first covered the whole country, particularly at the Little Prairie ; and it must indeed have been...earthquakes in a louder degree, but were by no means as desolating and destructive as the other. When they were felt the houses crumbled, and trees waved... | |
 | Newton Horace Winchell - Geology - 1902 - 488 pages
...shocks but two series of concussions were particularly terrible. There were two classes of shocks : those in which the motion was horizontal, and those...it was perpendicular. The latter were attended with explosions and the terrible mixture of noises that preceded and accompanied the earthquakes in a louder... | |
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... they remark that the shocks were clearly distinguishable into two classes, — those in which the motion was horizontal, and those in which it was perpendicular. The latter were attended with the explosions and the terrible mixture of noises that... 
