 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1852 - 632 σελίδες
...return to the upper country as fast as possible. In effect, a great many islands in the Mississippi were sunk, new ones raised, and the bed of the river...country exhibited a melancholy aspect of chasms of saiul covering the earth, of trees thrown down, or lying at an angle of forty-five degrees, or split... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1855 - 908 σελίδες
...were disposed of by the affrighted owners for a trifle; for the shocks continued daily; and the owners deeming the whole country below to be sunk, were glad...of forty-five degrees, or split in the middle. The Little Prairie settlement was broken up. The Great Prairie settlement, one of the most flourishing... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1856 - 462 σελίδες
...deeming the whole country below to be sunk, were glad to return to the upper country as fastas'possible. In effect, a great many islands were sunk, new ones...of forty-five degrees, or split in the middle. The Little Prairie settlement was broken up. The Great Prairie settlement, one of the most flourishing... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1857 - 504 σελίδες
...owners deeming the whole country below to be sunk, were glad to return to the upper country as fastas possible. In effect, a great many islands were sunk,...of forty-five degrees, or split in the middle. The Little Prairie settlement was broken up. The Great Prairie settlement, one of the most flourishing... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1858 - 766 σελίδες
...were disposed of by the affrighted owners for a trifle; for the shocks continued daily; and the owners deeming the whole country below to be sunk, were glad...of forty-five degrees, or split in the middle. The Little Prairie settlement was broken up. The Great Prairie settlement, one of the most flourishing... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1875 - 958 σελίδες
...owners for a trifle, for the shocks continued daily, and the owners deeming the whole country below sunk were glad to return to the upper country as fast...down, or lying at an angle of forty-five degrees, a split in the middle. The Little Prairie settlement was broken up. The Great Prairie settlement, one... | |
 | Lucien Carr - 1888 - 406 σελίδες
...matters of sale." After the violence of the earthquake had somewhat subsided, the country is said to have exhibited " a melancholy aspect of chasms, of sand...of forty-five degrees, or split in the middle." The settlement at Little Prairie was broken up, but two families remaining out of a hundred, whilst that... | |
 | Robert Sidney Douglass - 1912 - 850 σελίδες
...scene shortly afterward, Flint, who saw the country within a short time after the shocks, says : ' ' The country exhibited a melancholy aspect of chasms,...earth, of trees thrown down, or lying at an angle of 45 degrees, or split in the middle. The earthquakes still recurred at short intervals, so that the... | |
 | Myron L. Fuller - 1912 - 158 σελίδες
...the central area of disturbance for years. After the earthquake had moderated, according to Flint,2 the country — exhibited a melancholy aspect of chasms,...earth, of trees thrown down, or lying at an angle of 45°, or split in the middle. The earthquakes still recurred at short intervals, so that the people... | |
 | Geological Survey (U.S.) - 1912 - 146 σελίδες
...the central area of disturbance for years. After the earthquake had moderated, according to Flint,2 the country — exhibited a melancholy aspect of chasms,...earth, of trees thrown down, or lying at an angle of 45°, or split in the middle. The earthquakes still recurred at short intervals, so that the people... | |
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... possible. In effect, a great many islands were sunk, new ones raised, and the bed of the river very much changed in every respect. After the earthquake had moderated in violence, the country exhibited a melancholy aspect of chasms of sand covering... 
