 | John Murray (Firm) - 1811 - 618 pagina’s
...terror to the inhabitants of these valleys. "In the spring of 1818, the people of the valley ofBagnr! became alarmed on observing the low state of the waters...similar appearances before the dreadful inundation of lvif>, which was then occasioned by the accumulation of the waters behind the debris of a glacier that... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1833 - 690 pagina’s
...year 1818; taken from a, paper, by M. Escher de Lenth, in the /,//.-/. Univ. de Geneve, tom. viii. ' In the spring of 1818, the people of the Valley of...similar appearances before the dreadful inundation of 1 595, which was then occasioned by the accumulation of the waters behind the debris of a glacier that... | |
 | 1833 - 578 pagina’s
...the year 1818; taken from a paper, by M. Escher de Lcnth, in the Bibl. Univ. de Geneve, torn. viii. ' In the spring of 1818, the people of the Valley of Bagnes became alarmed on observing the low state cf the waters of the Drance, at a season when the melting of the snows usually enlarged the torrent;... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1838 - 446 pagina’s
...Genève, Sei. et Arts, torn. viü. p. 291, I was most forcibly struck with the unparalleled tieroism of the brave men who endeavoured to avert the evil,...similar appearances before the dreadful inundation of 1 595, which was then occasioned by the accumulation of the waters behind the débris of a glacier that... | |
 | John Murray - 1838 - 452 pagina’s
...of the brave men who endeavoured to avert the evil, by opening a channel for the waters, which liad, by their accumulation, become a source of terror to...similar appearances before the dreadful inundation of 1595, which was then occasioned by the accumulation of the waters behind the débris of a glacier that... | |
 | John Murray - 1838 - 356 pagina’s
...contains above 1400 cubic ft. ; and the height to which the waters rose is to this day distinctly marked. "In the spring of 1818 the people of the valley of...Bagnes became alarmed on observing the low state of the Dranse, and they discovered that vast masses of the glacier of Ge'troz, and avalanches of snow, had... | |
 | John Murray - 1842 - 482 pagina’s
...reading the account of M. Escher de Linth, published in the Bib. Univ. de Genève, Sei, et Arts, torn. viii. p. 291., I was most forcibly struck with the...similar appearances before the dreadful inundation of 1595, which was then occasioned by the accumulation of the waters behind the débris of a glacier that... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1846 - 444 pagina’s
...something of the dangers that ever lie in wait on Alpine life even in the midst of fancied security. " In the spring of 1818, the people of the valley of...similar appearances before the dreadful inundation of 1595, which was then occasioned by the accumulation of the waters behind the debris of, a glacier that... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1847 - 382 pagina’s
...something of the dangers that ever lie in wait on Alpine life even in the midst of fancied security. " In the spring of 1818, the people of the valley of...snows usually enlarged the torrent; and this alarm was encreased by the records of similar appearances before the dreadful inundation of 159S, which was then... | |
 | Enoch Lewis, Samuel Rhoads - 1848 - 856 pagina’s
...that have intervened, ha\e scarcely sufficed to obliterate the evidences ofthat terrible disaster. TU "In the spring of 1818, the people of the valley of...similar appearances before the dreadful inundation of 1595, which •was then occasioned by the accumulation of the waters behind the débris of a glacier... | |
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In the spring of 1818, the people of the valley of Bagnes became alarmed on observing the low state of the waters of the Drance, at a season when the melting of the snows usually enlarged the torrent ; and this alarm was increased by the records of similar... 
