 Shortly after the shock, a great wave was seen from the distance of three or four miles, approaching in the middle of the bay with a smooth outline; but along the shore it tore up cottages and trees, as it swept onwards with irresistible force. At the...  Elements of physical geography - Page 58by Hugo Reid - 1850Full view - About this book
 | Ebenezer Meriam - Finance - 1847 - 224 pages
...but along the shore it tore up cottages and trees, as it swept onwards with irresistible force. At the head of the bay it broke in a fearful line of...to a height of 23 vertical feet above the highest spring tides, their force must have been prodigious ; for at the fort a cannon, with its carriage,... | |
 | John White - 1866 - 328 pages
...at the distance of three or four miles, approaching the shore. At the head of the Bay of Conception it broke in a fearful line of white breakers, which rushed up to a height of twenty-three feet above the highest spring-tides. The force of this wave was so great that a cannon... | |
 | François Quesnel - 1869 - 360 pages
...but along4 the shore it tore up5 cottages and trees, as it swept onwards6 with irresistible force. At the head of the bay it broke in a fearful line of white breakers' which rushed up to a height of twenty-three vertical feet above the highest spring-tides.8 Their force must have been prodigious ;... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1924 - 1114 pages
...; but along the shore it tore up cottages and trees as it swept onwards with irresistible force. At the head of the bay it broke in a fearful line of white breakers, which rushed to a height of 23 vertical feet above the highest spring tides. The first wave was followed by two... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - Caves - 1871 - 578 pages
...but tearing up cottages and trees along the shore, as it swept onwards with irresistible force. At the head of the bay it broke in a fearful line of white breakers, which rushed up to a height of twenty-three vertical feet above the highest spring tides. Their force must have been prodigious, for... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - Caves - 1871 - 570 pages
...but tearing up cottages and trees along the shore, as it swept onwards with irresistible force. At the head of the bay it broke in a fearful line of white breakers, which rushed up to a height of twenty-three vertical feet above the highest spring tides. Their force must have been prodigious, for... | |
 | Addison Peale Russell - Conduct of life - 1875 - 416 pages
...; but along the shore it tore up cottages and trees, as it swept onward with irresistible force. At the head of the bay it broke in a fearful line of white breakers, which rushed up to a height of twenty-three vertical feet above the highest spring-tides. The lower orders in Talcahuano thought that... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1879 - 254 pages
...outline; but along the shore it tore up cottages and trees as it swept onward with irresistible force. At the head of the bay it broke in a fearful line of white breakers, which rushed up to a height of twenty-three vertical feet above the highest spring-tides. Their force must have been prodigious, for... | |
 | Military art and science - 1881 - 642 pages
...; but along the shore it tore up cottages and trees as it swept onwards with irresistible force. At the head of the bay it broke in a fearful line of white breakers, which rushed up to a height of twenty-three vertical feet above the highest springs." Their force must have been prodigious; for at... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - Earthquakes - 1887 - 166 pages
...but tearing up cottages and trees along the shore, as it swept onwards with irresistible force. At the head of the bay it broke in a fearful line of white breakers, which rushed up to a height of twenty-three vertical feet above the highest spring tides. Their force must have been prodigious, for... | |
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