 | John Milne Curran - Australia - 1898 - 424 pages
...over every portion of its surface. The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal-black colour of these vegetables with the light ground-work of...of another world ; he beholds trees, of forms and Fin. 52. PlaJyxchi*ina ocii/<m.1 Morris. A Permo-Carboniferous univalve. Harper's Hill, Newcastle (NSW)... | |
 | A. T. Swaine - Earth - 1913 - 336 pages
...every portion of its surface. The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal-black colour of the vegetables with the light ground-work of the rock to which they are attached. "The spectator feels transported as if by enchantment into the forests of another world ; he beholds trees of form and character... | |
 | Arminianism - 1851 - 648 pages
...over every portion of the surface. The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coalblack colour of these vegetables with the light groundwork of the rock to which ihey are attached. The spectator feels himself transported, as if by enchantment, into the forests... | |
 | 1836 - 610 pages
...vegetables, with the light ground work of the rock to which they are attached. The spectator feels transported, as if by enchantment, into the forests of another world ; he beholds trees, of form and character now unknown upon the surface of the earth, presented to his senses almost in the... | |
 | J. Dorman Steele - 1877 - 298 pages
...profusion over every portion of its surface. The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal-Mack color of these vegetables with the light ground-work...trees of forms and characters now unknown upon the SUP lace of the earth, presented to his senses almost In the beauty and vigor of tb» primeval life."—Dr.... | |
 | 1870 - 742 pages
...over every portion of its surface. The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal-black colour of these vegetables with the light ground-work of...feels himself transported, as if by enchantment, into tho forests of another world. He beholds trees of forms and characters now unknown upon the surface... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1852 - 264 pages
...over every portion of its surface. The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal-black colour of these vegetables with the light ground-work of the rock to which they are attached." maturity — and then another subsidence, and another accumulation of drift. And these oscillations... | |
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The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, encircled with festoons of most graceful foliage, flung in wild, irregular profusion over every portion of its surface. The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coalblack colour of these... 
