 | Edmund Burke - 1772 - 656 oldal
...dimple or hollow on their rounded tops, others with only half or a third part of their cone ftanding 5 the parts that are wanting having mouldered down,...here very frequent. All however have been evidently r.iifed by explofion ; and I believe, upon examination, many of the whimCcal fhapes of mountains in... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1773 - 204 oldal
...their rounded tops, others with only half or a third part of .their cone ftanding ; the parts that arc wanting having mouldered down, or perhaps been detached...frequent. All however have been evidently raifed by cxploiicn ; and I believe, upon examination, many of the whimfical fhapes of mountains in other parts... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1774 - 210 oldal
...dimple' or hollow on their rounded tops, others with only half or a third part of their cone ftanding ; the parts that are wanting having mouldered down,...other parts of the world would prove to have been occalioned by the fame natural operations. I obferved that thefe mountains were generally in lines... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1774 - 210 oldal
...dimple or hollow on their rounded tops, others with only half Or a third part of their cone Handing j the parts that are wanting having mouldered down,...here very frequent. All however have been evidently railed by explofion; and I believe, upon examination, many of the whirnfical fhapes of mountains in... | |
 | 1803 - 582 oldal
...dimple or hollow on their rounded tops, others with only half or a third part of their cone ilanding: the parts that are wanting having mouldered down,...frequent. All however have been evidently raifed by exploiion ; and I believe, upon examination, many of the whimfical fliapes of mountains in other parts... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1809 - 792 oldal
...only half or a third part of their cone standing ; the parts that are wanting having mouldered dowtij or perhaps been detached from them by earthquakes,...here very frequent. All however have been evidently raised by explosion ; and he believeSj on examination, many of the whimsical shapes of mountains in... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1830 - 728 oldal
...dimple or hollow on their rounded tops, others with only a half or a third part of their cone standing ; the parts that are wanting having mouldered down,...here very frequent. All, however, have been evidently raised by explosion; and he believes, on examination, many of the whimsical shapes of mountains in... | |
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... of a later date, and which preferve their pyramidal form entire. Some have been fo far mouldered down by time, as to have no other appearance of a crater than a fort... 