The Quarterly Review, Volume 36William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1827 - English literature |
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Page 440
... lava . Amongst the numerous phenomena exhibited by lava in a fluid state , some few were mentioned by Mr. Scrope ( Considera- ' tions on Volcanos , p . 20 ) , which are not in accordance with those attending the arti- ficial fusion of ...
... lava . Amongst the numerous phenomena exhibited by lava in a fluid state , some few were mentioned by Mr. Scrope ( Considera- ' tions on Volcanos , p . 20 ) , which are not in accordance with those attending the arti- ficial fusion of ...
Page 455
... lava and the granite of its western bank . The excavation effected by the river has exposed a wall of lava fifty feet high , and it is thus shown to be divided vertically into jointed columns of a regular polygonal form . ' But the ...
... lava and the granite of its western bank . The excavation effected by the river has exposed a wall of lava fifty feet high , and it is thus shown to be divided vertically into jointed columns of a regular polygonal form . ' But the ...
Page 458
... lava must be supposed to have occupied the lowest level of the district to which it had access when in a fluid state , the difference in relative height of these currents , so often as they happen to have taken the same direction ...
... lava must be supposed to have occupied the lowest level of the district to which it had access when in a fluid state , the difference in relative height of these currents , so often as they happen to have taken the same direction ...
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No LXXI | 1 |
The Poetical Works of John Milton with Notes of | 29 |
Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone Founder of the United | 61 |
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