 | 1804 - 614 страници
...general havock occalioned by a conflict of the elements, the labourer fees whole fields of fugar-eanes whirled into the air, and Scattered over the face of the country. Large trees are torn up by the roots, and (¿riven before the wind ; their ilronccll windmills ara... | |
 | Horatio Gates Spafford - 1809 - 448 страници
...terrible and destructive. First, they see, as a prelude to the ensuing havoc, whole fields of sugar canes •whirled into the air, and scattered over the face of the country. The strongest trees of the forest are torn up by the roots', and driven about like stubble. Wind mills... | |
 | William Driverger - 1820 - 648 страници
...violent storm of wind, rain, thunder, and lightning, sometimes attended with an earthquake. You seo wkole fields of sugar-canes whirled into the air, and scattered over the face of the country. The strongest trees are torn up by the roots, and driven about like stubble; the windmills are swept... | |
 | 1833 - 814 страници
...assemble, that is terrible and destructive. First — they sec, as a prelude to the ensuing havock, whole fields of sugar-canes whirled into the air, and scattered over the face of the country. The strongest trees of the forest are torn up by the roots, and driven about like stubble. Their windmills... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1838 - 480 страници
...terrible and destructive. First, they see as the prelude to the ensuing havoc, whole fields of sugar-cane whirled into the air, and scattered over the face of the country : the strongest trees of the forest torn up by the roots, and driven about like stubble ; their windmills... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1839 - 710 страници
...terrible and destructive. First, they see as the prelude to the ensuing havoc, whole fields of sugar canes whirled into the air, and scattered over the face of the country. The strongest trees of the forest are torn up by the roots and driven about like stubble; their windmills... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1826 - 492 страници
...terrible and destructive. First, they see as the prelude to the ensuing havoc, whole fields of sugar-cane whirled into the air, and scattered over the face of the country : the strongest trees of the forest torn up by the roots, and driven about like stubble ; their windmills... | |
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... of wind, rain, thunder, and lightning, attended with a furious swelling of the seas and sometimes with an earthquake ; in short, with every circumstance which the elements can assemble that is terrible and destructive. First, they see as the prelude... 