 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1782 - 588 pagina’s
...conful:<i<ited ( without froft, by prcffure, by fwiftnefs, between the pinching, fturdy rocks, to fuch a degree of induration, that no iron crow can be forced into it :—here iron, lead, and cork, have one common weight : —here, ftcady as time, and harder than marhle,... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1782 - 588 pagina’s
...confolidated, without froft, by preflure, by fwiftnefs, between the pinching, fturdy rocks, to fuch a degree of induration, that no iron crow can be forced into it :—here iron, lead, and cork, have one common weight :—here, fteady as time, and harder than marble,... | |
 | Several Hands - 1782 - 586 pagina’s
...confolidated, without froft, by prerTuie, by fwiftnefs, between the pinching, fturdy rocks, to fuch a degree of induration, that no iron crow can be forced into it:—here iron, lead, and cork, have one common weight: — here, iteady as time, and harder than... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1807 - 786 pagina’s
...ice through this awful passage, view with astonishment one of the greatest phenomena in nature. Here water is consolidated without frost, by pressure,...pinching sturdy rocks, to such a degree of induration, than ne iron crow can be forced into it ; here iron, lead, and cork have one common weight ; here,... | |
 | 1814 - 580 pagina’s
...compressed between two " unyielding rocks, hecomes consolidated without frost, by pressure and by swiftness, to such a degree of induration that no iron crow can be forced into it." Whatever may be thought of this passage, it relates nothing half so remarkable as thousands of stories... | |
 | 1835 - 526 pagina’s
...New England provinces." This book contains the wonderful account of the falls of the Upper Cohos, " where water is consolidated without frost, by pressure,...induration, that no iron crow can be forced into it," &c. The author was Dr. Samuel A. Peters, a refugee. He resided in England from 1774 to 1805, when be... | |
 | James Luce Kingsley - 1838 - 128 pagina’s
...the Sound, the water passes through a chasm, formed by " two shelving mountains of solid rock," and " is consolidated, without frost, by pressure, by swiftness,...sturdy rocks, to such a degree of induration, that an,iron crow floats smoothly down, its current; here iron, lead, and cork, have one common weight:... | |
 | John Wingate Thornton - 1860 - 560 pagina’s
...high reputation for veracity and godly simplicity. He describes a "chasm" in the Connecticut River, where "water is consolidated, without frost, by pressure,...induration that no iron crow can be forced into it; ... steady as time, and harder than marble, the stream passes irresistible, if not swift as lightning;... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - 1860 - 684 pagina’s
...truth, when he comes upon the following representation of a scene on the river Connecticut : " Here water is consolidated without frost, by pressure,...induration, that no iron crow can be forced into it; here iron, lead, and cork have one common weight." (General History, &c., p. 127.) Malte-Brun (Geographic... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - 1860 - 670 pagina’s
...truth, when he comes upon the following representation of a scene on the river Connecticut: " Here water is consolidated without frost, by pressure,...induration, that no iron crow can be forced into it; here iron, lead, and cork have one common weight." (General History, &c., p. 127.) Malte-Brun (Gdographie... | |
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a wonderful account of the Upper Cohoes Falls, " where water is consolidated without frost, by pressure, by swiftness, between the pinching, sturdy rocks, to such a degree of induration that no iron crow can be forced into it." Also a curious account... 
