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" ... in order to form it; between the angles of which a yellow stalagmitic matter has exuded, which serves to define the angles precisely, and at the same time vary the colour with a great deal of elegance, and to render it still more agreeable, the whole... "
The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal - Page 454
1774
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the monthly journal

several hands - 1774 - 596 pages
...defcribed by travellers f. " The mind can hardly form an idea more magnificent than fuch a fpacej, fupported on each fide by ranges of columns ; and...roofed by the bottoms of thofe which have been broke off in order to form it ; between the angles of which a yellow ilalagmitic matter has exaded, which...
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A Tour in Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides, 1772, Part 1

Thomas Pennant - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1776 - 548 pages
...Mac-^uaire, of Ulva, and is now to be difpdfed of, by the bottoms of thofe, which have been broke off in order to form it ; between the angles of which a yellow ftalagmitic matter has exuded, which ferves to define the angles precifely ; and at the fame time vary the color with a great...
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and ..., Volume 17

History - 1778 - 630 pages
...been defcribed by travellers. " The mind can hardly form an idea more magnificent than fuch a fpace, fupported on each fide by ranges of columns; and roofed by the bottoms of thofe, which have been broke off in order to form it ; between the angles of which a yellow ftalagmitic matter has exuded, which...
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Letters on Iceland: Containing Observations on the Civil, Literary ...

Uno von Troil, Joseph Banks - Geology - 1780 - 440 pages
...been defcribed by travellers. The mind can hardly form an idea more magnificent than fuch a fpace, fupported on each fide by ranges of columns ; and roofed by the bottoms of thofe, which have been broken ofTin order to form it ; between the angles of which a yellow ftalagmitic matter has exuded,...
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Letters on Iceland: Containing Observations on the Civil, Literary ...

Uno von Troil - Iceland - 1780 - 444 pages
...travellers. The mind can hardly form an idea more magnificent than fuch a fpate, fupported on each fide b^ ranges of columns ; and roofed by the bottoms of thofe, which have been broke off in order to form it ; between the angles of which a yellow flalagmitic matter has exuded, which...
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A Tour Through the Highlands of Scotland, and the Hebride Isles, in MDCCLXXXVI.

John Knox - Fisheries - 1787 - 566 pages
...been defcribed by travellers. " The mind can hardly form an idea more magnificent than fuch a fpace, fupported on each fide by ranges of columns ; and...roofed by the bottoms of thofe, which have been broke off in order to form it ; between the angles of which a yellow flalagmitic matter has exuded, which...
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A View of Universal History, from the Creation to the Present Time ..., Volume 2

John Adams - World history - 1795 - 676 pages
...ever been de" fcribed by travellers. The mind can hardly form an idea " more magnificent than a fpace, fupported on each fide by " ranges of columns, and roofed by the bottoms of thofe " which have been broken off in order to form it ; between, 0 the angles of which, a yellow ftalagtitic matter has exuded,...
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The British Tourists, Or, Traveller's Pocket Companion: Through ..., Volume 1

William Fordyce Mavor - Great Britain - 1798 - 328 pages
...was defcribed by travellers. " The mind can fcarcely form an idea more magnificent than fuch a fpace, fupported on each fide by ranges of columns, and roofed by the bottoms of thofe which have been broken off, in order to form it; between the angles of which a yellow flalagmitic matter has exuded,...
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Scotland Delineated, Or, A Geographical Description of Every Shire in ...

Robert Heron - Scotland - 1799 - 432 pages
...himfelf thus : " The mind can hardly form an idea more " magnificent than fuch a fpace, fupport" ed on each fide by ranges of columns, " and roofed by the bottoms of thofe which " have been broken off in order to form " it." The cave is lighted from without, fo that the furtheft extremity...
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Travels in England, Scotland, and the Hebrides: Undertaken for the ..., Volume 2

Faujas-de-St.-Fond (cit., Barthélemy) - Great Britain - 1799 - 388 pages
...defcribed by travellers. .... ** The mind can hardly form an idea more ** magnificent than fuch a {pace, fupported *' on each fide by ranges of columns, and *' roofed by the bottoms of thofe that have *-* been broke off in order to form it; be*' tween the angles of which a yellow ftalag*'...
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