 | 1774 - 592 pages
...or furface of the iiland, varied in thicknefs, as the ifland itfelf formed into hills or valleys ; each hill which hung over the columns below, forming an ample pediment, fome of thefe above 60 feet in thicknefs, from the bale to the point, formed by the doping of the hill... | |
 | Thomas Pennant - 1776 - 548 pages
...thefe,.the.ftratum which reaches to the foil or furface of the ifland, varied in thicknefs, as the ifland itfelf formed into hills or vallies; each hill, which hung over the columns below,. , low, forming an ample pediment; fome of thefe above 60 feet in thicknefs, from the bafe to the point,... | |
 | 1778 - 630 pages
...foil or furface of the ifland, varied in thicknefs, as the ifland itfelf formed into hills or values; each hill, which hung over the columns below, forming an ample pediment ; fome of thefe above 60 feet in thicknefs, from the bale to the point, formed by the flopingof the... | |
 | Uno von Troil - 1780 - 444 pages
...ftratum, which reaches to the foil or furiace of the ifland, varied in thicknefs, as the ifland itfelf formed into hills or vallies ; each, hill, which hung...over the columns below, forming an ample pediment ; fomeof thpfc nlvovefixty feet in thick nefs, from the bafe tothe point, formed by the doping of the... | |
 | John Knox - 1787 - 566 pages
...ftratum which reaches to the foil or furface of the ifland, varied in thicknefs, as the ifland itfelf formed into hills or vallies ; each hill, which hung...over the columns below, forming an ample pediment ; fome of thefe above 60 feet in thicknefs, from the bufe to the point, formed by the floping of the... | |
 | 512 pages
...ftratum, which reaches to the foil or furface of the ifland, varied in thicknefs, as the ifland itfelf formed into hills or vallies ; each hill, which hung...over the columns below, forming an ample pediment ; fome of thefe are above fixty feet in thicknefs, from the V-afe to the point, formed by the floping... | |
 | John Adams - 1795 - 676 pages
...ftratum which reaches " to the foil or furface of the ifland, varied in thicknefs as " the ifland itfelf formed into hills or vallies ; each hill, " which hung over the columns below^ compofed an ample " pediment ; fometimes fixty feet in thicknefs from the bafe " to the point, and... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 414 pages
...formed themselves ; upon a firm basis of solid unformed rock, above these the stratum, which reaches to the soil or surface of the island, varied in thickness, as the island itself formed into hills or valleys ; each hill which hung over the column below forming an ample pediment ; some of these above... | |
 | John Pinkerton - 1809 - 964 pages
...ftratum which reaches to the foil or furface of the ifland, varied in thicknefs as the ifland itfelf formed into hills or vallies ; each hill, which hung...over the columns below, forming an ample pediment ; fome of thefe above fixty feet in thicknefs, from the bafe to the point, formed by the doping of... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 540 pages
...formed themselves upon a firm hasis of solid unformed rock, above these, the stratum which reaches to the soil or surface of the island, varied in thickness...below, forming an ample pediment ; some of these above sixty feet in thickness, from the hase to the point, formed by the doping of the hill on each side,... | |
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... in natural colonnades, according as the bays or points of land formed themselves, upon a firm basis of solid unformed rock... 
