 The view before us was so marvellous, that the description of it, to bear even a faint resemblance, ought to appear romantic. The vast slope, which, at a distance, we had taken for chalk, was now beheld with wonder, it seeming an immense frozen cascade,...  Travels in Asia Minor and Greece: Or, an Account of a Tour Made at the ... - Σελίδα 263των Richard CChandler - 1817Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1828 - 606 σελίδες
...Our tent stood on a green dry spot beneath the cliff. The view before us was so marvellous, that a description of it, to bear even a faint resemblance,...fixed, or in its headlong course suddenly petrified The hot waters of Hierapolis have produced this most extraordinary phenomenon, wbirh is one entire... | |
 | John Anthony Cramer - 1832 - 436 σελίδες
...was one entire encrustation : he describes its appearance as that of " an immense frozen cas" cade, the surface wavy, as of water at once fixed, " or in its headlong course suddenly petrified °." Besides this singular property, the waters of this town possessed, in a remarkable degree, that... | |
 | Samuel Ransom - 1840 - 500 σελίδες
...locality on approaching it : — " The view was so marvellous, that the description of it, to bear a faint resemblance, ought to appear romantic. The...suddenly petrified. Round about us were many high, bare, strong ridges ; and close by our tent, one with a wide basis, and a slender rill of water, clear, soft,... | |
 | 1850 - 386 σελίδες
...enclosing about half an acre." The following is the description given by him of the petrified cascade : "The view before us was so marvellous, that the description...seeming an immense frozen cascade, the surface wavy, as if at once fixed, or on its headlong course suddenly petrified. Round about us were many high, bare,... | |
 | J. W. - 1868 - 136 σελίδες
...unfolds itself into a stupendous mass of stalactite, or alabaster, which is literally nothir else than " an immense frozen cascade, the surface wavy, as of...fixed, or in its headlong course suddenly petrified." This — as its contour at the very first glance proves — has been formed in the course of ages by... | |
 | William Sandys W. Vaux - 1877 - 204 σελίδες
...states that a cliff near the town is one entire incrustation, and describes its appearance as that of " an immense frozen cascade, the surface wavy, as of...fixed, or in its headlong course suddenly petrified." l An excellent view of this curious scene is given in Mr. Davis's "Anatolica," p. 100. Besides its... | |
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