 | 1839 - 512 pages
...earth. The few remaining trees, stripped of their boughs and foliage, wore a cold and wintry aspect ; and the numerous seats in the environs of Bridgetown,...groves, were now exposed and in ruins." •In the year 1835 two rotatory hurricanes occurred in the West Indies. One of them, which we have already mentioned... | |
 | sir William Reid - 1838 - 474 pages
...earth. The few remaining trees, stripped of their boughs and foliage, wore a cold and wintry aspect; and the numerous seats in the environs of Bridgetown,...amid thick groves, were now exposed and in ruins. " From the direction in which the cocoa-nut and other trees were prostrated next to the earth, the... | |
 | William Reid - 1838 - 470 pages
...earth. The few remaining trees, stripped of their houghs and foliage, wore a cold and wintry aspect; and the numerous seats in the environs of Bridgetown,...amid thick groves, were now exposed and in ruins. " From the direction in which the cocoa-nut and other trees were prostrated next to the earth, the... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1839 - 630 pages
...earth. The few remaining trees, stripped of their boughs and foliage, wore a cold and wintry aspect ; and the numerous seats in the environs of Bridgetown,...thick groves, were now exposed, and in ruins.' In the year 1835 two rotatory hurricanes occurred in the Weit Indies. One of them, which we have already mentioned... | |
 | 1839 - 510 pages
...earth. The few remaining trees, stripped of their boughs and foliage, wore a cold and wintry aspect ; and the numerous seats in the environs of Bridgetown,...thick groves, were now exposed and in ruins." In the year 1835 two rotatory hurricanes occurred in the West Indies. One of them, which we have already mentioned... | |
 | LIEUT-COLONEL W. REID - 1850 - 580 pages
...earth. The few remaining trees, stripped of their boughs and foliage, wore a cold and wintry aspect; and the numerous seats in the environs of Bridgetown,...amid thick groves, were now exposed and in ruins. " From the direction in which the cocoa-nut and other trees were prostrated next to the earth, the... | |
 | Heinrich Wilhelm Dove - 1862 - 374 pages
...earth ; the few remaining trees, stripped of their boughs and foliage, wore a cold and wintry aspect; and the numerous seats in the environs of Bridgetown,...amid thick groves, were now exposed and in ruins. From the direction in which the cocoanut and other trees were prostrated next to the earth, the first... | |
 | Heinrich Wilhelm Dove - 1862 - 384 pages
...earth ; the few remaining trees, stripped of their boughs and foliage, wore a cold and wintry aspect; and the numerous seats in the environs of Bridgetown,...amid thick groves, were now exposed and in ruins. From the direction in which the cocoanut and other trees were prostrated next to the earth, the first... | |
 | Thomas Belden Butler - 1870 - 446 pages
...earth ; the few remaining trees stripped of their boughs and foliage, wore a cold and wintery aspect, and the numerous seats in the environs of Bridgetown,...amid thick groves, were now exposed and in ruins. From the direction in which the cocoanut and other trees were prostrated next to the earth, the first... | |
 | David M. Toomey - 2002 - 332 pages
...earth. The few remaining trees, stripped of the bows and foliage, wore a cold and wintry aspect; and numerous seats in the environs of Bridgetown, formerly...thick groves, were now exposed and in ruins. . . ." In 1834 a hurricane hit the island of Dominica, and in 1837 at least eight hurricanes swept through the... | |
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... vegetation was apparent, except here and there small patches of a sickly green. The surface of the ground appeared as if fire had run through the land, scorching and burning up the productions of the earth. The few remaining trees, stripped of their... 