 The crater was five miles in circumference, and about a thousand paces deep ; its sides were covered with brushwood, and at the bottom there was a plain on which cattle grazed. In the woody parts wild boars frequently harboured.  A class-book of physical geography - Page 216by William Hughes - 1868Full view - About this book
 | 1833 - 310 pages
...woody parts, wild boars frequently harboured; and, in one part of the plain, covered with ashes, there were three small pools ; one, filled with hot and bitter water ; another, salter than the sea ; and the third, hot but tasteless." In December, 1631, however, these verdant plains and woods, with their... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1835 - 472 pages
...thousand paces deep ; its sides were covered with brushwood, and at the bottom there was a plain on which cattle grazed. In the woody parts wild boars...another salter than the sea, and a third hot, but tasteless."* But at length these forests and grassy plains were consumed, being suddenly blown into... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1837 - 568 pages
...thousand paces deep ; its sides were covered with brushwood, and at the bottom there was a plain on which cattle grazed. In the woody parts wild boars...pools, one filled with hot and bitter water, another saiter than the sea, and a third hot, but tasteless."* But at length these forests and grassy plains... | |
 | Albert Henry Payne - 1844 - 270 pages
...thousand paces deep ; its sides were covered with brushwood, and at the bottom there was a plain on which cattle grazed. In the woody parts, wild boars...another salter than the sea, and a third hot, but tasteless." But, at length, we quote the words of Mr. Lyell, these forests and grassy plains were consumed,... | |
 | Hamilton Lanphere Smith - 1848 - 336 pages
...bottom there was a plain on which cattle grazed. In the woody parts wild boars frequently harbored. In one part of the plain, covered with ashes, were...water, another salter than the sea, and a third hot but tasteless." Suddenly, in December 1630, these forests and grassy plains were blown into the air, and... | |
 | William Bellamy (headmaster of Norwich diocesan model sch.) - 1853 - 286 pages
...abont 1000 paces deep; its sides were covered with brushwood, and at the bottom there was a plain on which cattle grazed. In the woody parts wild boars...another salter than the sea, and a third hot, but tasteless." Herculaneum was discovered in 1713, and many curions articles have been dug from the ruins... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1854 - 870 pages
...bottom there was a plain on which cattle grazed. In the woody parts wild boars frequently harbored. In one part of the plain, covered with ashes, were...another salter than the sea, and a third hot, but tasteless."* But at length these forests and grassy plains were consumed, being suddenly blown into... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1868 - 796 pages
...thousand paces deep ; its sides were covered with brushwood, and at the bottom there was a plain on which cattle grazed. In the woody parts, wild boars...another salter than the sea, and a third hot, but tasteless." But in December, 1681, the mountain blew away the covering of rock and cinders which supported... | |
 | Museum of Practical Geology (Great Britain), Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay - 1862 - 316 pages
...covered with brush-wood, and at the bottom there was a plain on which cattle grazed. In the woody part wild boars frequently harboured In one part of the...water, another salter than the sea, and a third hot but tasteless. But at length these forests and grassy plains were consumed, being suddenly blown into the... | |
 | Richard Atkinson Peacock - 1866 - 88 pages
...ISTot long before the eruption of Vesuvius in 1631, in one part of the plain (at the foot of the cone) covered with ashes, were three small pools, one filled...water, another salter than the sea, and a third hot but tasteless. In December, 1631, great floods of mud were as destructive as the lava itself; .110 uncommon... | |
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