 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1833 - 614 страници
...Strabo. The ancient cone was of a very regular form, terminating, not, as at present, in two peaks, but with a flattish summit, where the remains of an ancient...sterile plain at the bottom. On the exterior, the sides of the mountains were covered with fertile fields, richly cultivated, and at its base were the... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1833 - 548 страници
...cone was of a very regular form, terminating, not, as at present, in two peaks, but with a flatfish summit, where the remains of an ancient crater, nearly...sterile plain at the bottom. On the exterior, the sides of the mountains were covered with fertile fields, richly cultivated, and at its base were the... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1835 - 472 страници
...vents. The ancient cone was of a very regular form, terminating, not as at present, in two peaks, but with a flattish summit, where the remains of an ancient...fields richly cultivated, and at its base were the populous cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii. But the scene of repose was at length doomed to cease,... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1835 - 500 страници
...vents. The ancient cone was of a very regular form, terminating, not as at present, in two peaks, but with a flattish summit, where the remains of an ancient...at the bottom. On the exterior, the flanks of the mountains were clothed with fertile fields richly cultivated, and at its base were the populous cities... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - 1835 - 546 страници
...cone was of a very reg&lar form, terminating, not, as at present, in two peaks, but with a flatfish summit, where the remains of an ancient crater, nearly...sterile plain at the bottom. On the exterior, the sides of the mountains were covered with fertile fields, richly cultivated, and at its base were the... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1837 - 568 страници
...cone was of a very regular form, terminating, not as at present, in two peaks, but with a flattisb summit, where the remains of an ancient crater, nearly...at the bottom. On the exterior, the flanks of the mountains were clothed with fertile fields richly cultivated, and at its base were the populous cities... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1838 - 372 страници
...northern Italy was first colonized by the Greeks, " its cone was of a regular form, with a flatfish summit, where the remains of an ancient crater, nearly...wild vines, and with a sterile plain at the bottom." From the earliest period to which tradition refers, to the first century of the christian era, the... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1839 - 444 страници
...irregular ; but when northern Italy was first colonized by the Greeks, " its cone was of a regular form, with a flattish summit, where the remains of an ancient...wild vines, and with a sterile plain at the bottom." From the earliest period to which tradition refers, to the first century of the christian era, this... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1840 - 514 страници
...vents. The ancient cone was of a very regular form, terminating, not as at present, in two peaks, but with a flattish summit, where the remains of an ancient...at the bottom. On the exterior, the flanks of the mountains were clothed with fertile fields richly cultivated, and at its base were the populous cities... | |
 | Rosina Maria Zornlin - 1840 - 516 страници
...depression, which was covered with vines, having an arid plain, however, at the bottom. The exterior flanks of the mountain were clothed with fertile fields, richly cultivated; and at its base were the populous cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii. But this scene of repose and fertility was doomed to cease.... | |
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The ancient cone was of a very regular form, terminating, not as at present, in two peaks, but with a flattish summit, where the remains of an ancient crater, nearly filled up, had left a slight depression, covered in its interior by wild vines, and with... 
