 | Sir David Brewster, Robert Jameson - 1822 - Страниц: 458
...In the winter of 1802, a tabular-shaped mass, 8 feet 2 inches, by 7 feet, and 5 feet 1 inch thick, was dislodged from its bed, and removed to a distance of from 80 to 90 feet. I measured the recent bed from which a block had been carried away the preceding winter (AD 1818),... | |
 | Samuel Hibbert - 1822 - Страниц: 670
...incredible. In the winter of 1802, a tabular-shaped mass, 8 feet 2 inches by 7 feet, and 5 feet 1 inch thick, was dislodged from its bed, and removed to a distance of from 80 to 90 feet. I measured the recent bed from which a block had been carried away the preceding winter (AD 1818),... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - Страниц: 798
...winter of 1802 a tabular-shaped mass, eight feet two inches by seven feet, and five feet one inch thick, was dislodged from its bed,- and removed to a distance of from eighty to ninety feet. I measured the recent bed from which a block had been carried away the preceding... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1844 - Страниц: 362
...incredible. In the winter of 1802, a mass, eight feet two inches by seven feet, and five feet one inch thick, was dislodged from its bed, and removed to a distance of from eighty to ninety feet. The bed from which a block had been carried away in the year 1818, was seventeen... | |
 | Natural phenomena - 1846 - Страниц: 142
...One winter a tabular-shaped mass, eight feet two inches by seven feet, and five feet one inch thick, was dislodged from its bed and removed to a distance of from eighty to ninety feet. Another much larger mass had been borne to a distance of thirty feet, when it... | |
 | Hamilton Lanphere Smith - 1848 - Страниц: 336
...a tabular shaped mass of rock, eight feet two inches, by seven feet, and five feet one inch thick, was dislodged from its bed and removed to a distance of from eighty to ninety feet; and on Meikle Roe, one of the Shetland isles, a mass of rock twelve feet square,... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - Страниц: 892
...of 1802, a tabular-shaped mass, eight feet two inches by seven feet, and five feet one inch thick, was dislodged from its bed, and removed to a distance of from eighty to ninety feet. I measured the recent bed from which a block had been carried away the preceding... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1852 - Страниц: 362
...incredible. In the winter of 1802, a mass, eight feet two inches by seven feet, and five feet one inch thick, was dislodged from its bed, and removed to a distance of from eighty to ninety feet. The bed from which a block had been carried away in the year 1818, was seventeen... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1853 - Страниц: 368
...incredible. In the winter of 1802, a mass, *;ght feet two inches by seven feet, and five feet one inch thick, was dislodged from its bed, and removed to a distance of from eighty to ninety feet. The bed from which a block had been carried away in the year ISIS, was seventeen... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1853 - Страниц: 646
...One winter, a tabularshaped mass, eight feet two inches by seven feet, and five feet one inch thick, was dislodged from its bed and removed to a distance of from eighty to ninety feet. Another much larger mass had been borne to a distance of thirty feet, when it... | |
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... acclivity to a distance almost incredible. In the winter of 1802, a tabular-shaped mass, eight feet two inches by seven feet, and five feet one inch thick, was dislodged from its bed, and removed to a distance of from eighty to ninety feet. 
