 | Wonders - 1866 - 400 pagina’s
...vast breadth of meadow-land, watered by two or three rivers, that wound and twisted and coiled about like blue serpents. Here and there white volumes of...in endless wreaths from the ground, told of mighty caldrons at work beneath that moist, cool, verdant carpet ; while large, silvery lakes, and flat-topped,... | |
 | 1872 - 264 pagina’s
...vast breadth of meadow-land, watered by two or three rivers, that wound and twisted, and coiled about, like blue serpents. Here and there white volumes of...in endless wreaths from the ground, told of mighty caldrons at work beneath that moist, cool, verdant carpet. Between AD 1004 and 1766 there are twenty-three... | |
 | National reading books - 1871 - 224 pagina’s
...vast breadth of meadowland, watered by two or three rivers, that wound and twisted, and coiled about, like blue serpents. Here and there white volumes of...in endless wreaths from the ground, told of mighty caldrons at work beneath that moist, cool, verdant carpet. Between AD 1004 and 1766 there are twenty-... | |
 | Wonders - 1875 - 392 pagina’s
...there white volumes of vapour, that rose in endless wreaths from the ground, told of mighty caldrons at work beneath that moist, cool, verdant carpet;...and clear against the sky. " Of course it was rather tantalising to pass so near this famous burning mountain without having an opportunity of ascending... | |
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On the left lay a long rampart of green hills, opening up every now and then into Scottish glens and gorges, while from their roots to the horizon stretched a vast breadth of meadow-land, watered by two or three rivers, that wound, and twisted, and coiled... 