 | John Murray (Firm) - 1811 - 618 pagina’s
...the pressure until the lake had reached Ihe level of its top, a volume of 1,700,000,000 cubic feel of water would have been accumulated there, and a devastation much more fatal anil extensive must have been the consequence. From this greater danger the people of the valley of... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1833 - 690 pagina’s
...have endured the pressure until the lake had reached the level of its top, a volume of 1,700,000,000 cubic feet of water would have been accumulated there,...extensive must have been the consequence. From this great danger the people of the valley of the Drance were preserved by the. heroism and devotion of... | |
 | 1833 - 578 pagina’s
...have endured the pressure until the lake had reached the level of its top, a volume of 1,700,000,000 cubic feet of water would have been accumulated there,...extensive must have been the consequence. From this great danger the people of the valley of the Dranco were preserved by the heroism and devotion of the... | |
 | William Pinnock - 1836 - 734 pagina’s
...basin formed by the barrier more than one-half." " From this greater danger," pays Mr. Brockendon, " the people of the valley of the Drance were preserved by the heroism of the brave men who effected the formation of the gallery in the dyke, under the direction of M. Venetz.... | |
 | John Murray - 1838 - 452 pagina’s
...have endured the pressure until the lake had reached the level of its top, a volume of 1,700,000,000 cubic feet of water would have been accumulated there,...devastation much more fatal and extensive must have M.Venetz, which promises the greatest success. " M. Venetz had remarked that the glacier could not... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1846 - 430 pagina’s
...of 1,700,000,000 cubic feet of water would have been accumulated there, and a devastation much more extensive must have been the consequence. From this...brave men who effected the formation of the gallery, under the direction of M. Venetz. I know no instance on record of courage equal to this : their risk... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1846 - 444 pagina’s
...have endured the pressure until the lake had reached the level of its top, a volume of 1,700,000,000 cubic feet of water would have been accumulated there, and a devastation much more extensive must have been the consequence. From this greater danger the people of the valley of the... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1847 - 382 pagina’s
...have endured the pressure until the lake had reached the level of its top, a volume of 1,700,000,000 cubic feet of water would have been accumulated there, and a devastation much more extensive must have been the consequence. From this greater danger the people of the valley of the... | |
 | Enoch Lewis, Samuel Rhoads - 1848 - 856 pagina’s
...have endured the pressure until the lake had reached the level of its top, a volume of 1,700,000,000 cubic feet of water would have been accumulated there, and a devastation much more extensive must have been the consequence. From this greater danger, the people of the valley of the... | |
 | Charles Williams - 1854 - 662 pagina’s
...have endured the pressure until the lake had reached the level of its top, a volume of 1,700,000,000 cubic feet of water would have been accumulated there, and a devastation much more extensive must have been the consequence. From this greater danger the people of the valley of the... | |
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... extensive must have been the consequence. From this greater danger the people of the valley of the Drance were preserved by the heroism and devotion of the brave men who effected the formation of the gallery in the dike, under the direction of M. 
