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The gem of the Peak; or, Matlock Bath and its vicinity - Page 203
by William Adam - 1838 - 256 pages
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The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical ..., Volume 3

John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1802 - 654 pages
...stalactite incrust the sides and prominent points of the cavity. In this part, the stranger is generally surprised by an invisible vocal concert, which bursts...of the chasm; yet, being unexpected, "and issuing issuing from a quarter where no object can be seen, in a place where all is still as death, and every...
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The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical ..., Volume 3

John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1802 - 652 pages
...stalactite incrust the sides and prominent points of the cavity. In this part, the stranger is generally surprised by an invisible vocal concert, which bursts...of the chasm ; yet, being unexpected, " and issuing display an intermixture of chert. From different parts of the cavern,' some communications open with...
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The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical ..., Volume 3

John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1802 - 650 pages
...stalactite incrust the sides and prominent points of the cavity. In this part, the stranger is generally surprised by an invisible vocal concert, which bursts...upper region of the chasm; yet, being unexpected, "and ; V ' m : l issuing from à quarter where no object can be seer), in a place where all is still as...
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The Wonders of Nature and Art, Or, A Concise Account of Whatever is Most ...

Thomas Smith - 1803 - 340 pages
...bursts in discordant tones from the upper region of the chasm : " Yet," says a respectable tourist *, " being unexpected, and issuing from a quarter where...seen, in a place where all is still as death, and < .ilculated to impress the imagination with solemn i.leas, it can seldom be heard without that mingled...
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A New Historical and Descriptive View of Derbyshire: From the ..., Volume 1

David Peter Davies - 1811 - 758 pages
...be said to be such as " take the imprisoned soul, and lap it in Elysium ;" but being unexpected — issuing from a quarter where no object can be seen — in a place * here all is still as d^ath— and every thing •round calculated to awaken attention, and powerfully...
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Gallery of Nature and Art, Or a Tour Through Creation and Science ..., Volume 2

Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 546 pages
...bursts in discordant tones from the upper regions of the chasm: " Yet," says a respectable tourist *, " being unexpected, and issuing from a quarter where...seen, in a place where all is still as death, and calculated to impress .the imagination with solemn ideas, it can seldom be heard without that mingled...
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The Gallery of Nature and Art; Or, a Tour Through Creation and Science, Volume 2

Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 540 pages
...bursts in discordant tones from the upper regions of the chasm : " Yet," says a respectable tourist*, " being unexpected, and issuing from a quarter where...seen, in a place where all is still as death, and calculated to impress the imagination with solemn ideas, it can seldom be heard without that mingled...
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The Hundred Wonders of the World: And of the Three Kingdoms of Nature ...

Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 788 pages
...in discordant tones from the upper regions of the chasm. " Still," observes a modern tourist, " This being unexpected, and issuing from a quarter where...can be seen, in a place where all is still as death, is calculated to impress the imagination with solemn ideas, and can seldom be heard without that emotion...
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A Guide to the Peak of Derbyshire: Containing a Concise Account of Buxton ...

R. Ward - 1827 - 234 pages
...stranger is generally surprised by a concert, which bursts from the upper part of the chasm ; and this being unexpected, and issuing from a quarter where...object can be seen, in a place where all is still «s death, and every thing around calculated to awaken attention, and powerfully impress the imagination...
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The Saturday Magazine ..., Volume 1

1833 - 814 pages
...bursts in discordant tones from the upper regions of the chasm ; ' yet," says a respectable tourist, " being unexpected, and issuing from a quarter where...seen, in a place where all is still as death, and calculated to impress the imagination with solemn ideas, it can seldom be heard without that mingled...
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