 | Samuel Peters - 1782 - 462 pagina’s
...confolidated, without froft, by prefTure, 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... | |
 | Several Hands - 1782 - 586 pagina’s
...confolidated, without froft, by prefluie, 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 trraa... | |
 | 1791 - 822 pagina’s
...confolidated, without froft, by prefTure, by fvviftnefs, 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; the... | |
 | 428 pagina’s
...confolidated, without froll, by preffure, 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 marble,... | |
 | 1814 - 550 pagina’s
...compressed between two " unyielding rocks, becomes 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... | |
 | Obadiah Rich - 1835 - 444 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 1S05, when be... | |
 | Bernard Quaritch (Firm) - 1884 - 820 pagina’s
...the four New England Provinces." The work contains a wonderful account of the Falls of Upper Cohos, " where water is consolidated without frost by pressure,...induration, that no iron crow can be Forced into it." 29780 PETERSON (E.)Historyof Rhode Island, 8vo. сШЪ, 7s &d NY 1853 29781 PEYTON . ( JL) History... | |
 | John Wingate Thornton - 1860 - 556 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 Wingate Thornton - 1860 - 566 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 - 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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Here 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 ; here iron, lead, and cork have one common weight. 
