 | Ben Casseday - Louisville (Ky.) - 1852 - 310 pages
...felt on the 16th of December at 2 h. 15 in. in the morning. Mr. Jared Brookes says of it: "It seems as if the surface of the earth was afloat and set...sudden cross shove, all order is destroyed, and a boiling action is produced, during the continuance of which the degree of violence is greatest, and... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - Anthropology - 1906 - 466 pages
...who seems to have given much attention to these phenomena, and classified them carefully. He said : " It seemed as if the surface of the earth was afloat...in motion by a slight application of immense power, then a boiling action succeeded, houses oscillate, gables and chimneys of many houses are thrown down."... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - Anthropology - 1906 - 470 pages
...who seems to have given much attention to these phenomena, and classified them carefully. He said : " It seemed as if the surface of the earth was afloat...in motion by a slight application of immense power, then a boiling action succeeded, houses oscillate, gables and chimneys of many houses are thrown down."... | |
 | T. J. J. See - Earthquakes - 1907 - 156 pages
...who seems to have given much attention to these phenomena, and classified them carefully. He said: " It seemed as if the surface of the earth was afloat...in motion by a slight application of immense power, then a boiling action succeeded, houses oscillate, gables and chimneys of many houses are thrown down."... | |
 | Myron L. Fuller - Earthquakes - 1912 - 158 pages
...the action as a blowing up of the earth accompanied by loud explosions.1 Casseday writes: 2 "It seems as if the surface of the earth was afloat and set...sudden cross shove, all order is destroyed, and a boiling action is produced, during the continuance of which the degree of violence is greatest, and... | |
 | Geological Survey (U.S.) - Geology - 1912 - 146 pages
...the action as a blowing up of the earth accompanied by loud explosions.1 Casseday writes: 2 "It seems as if the surface of the earth was afloat and set...this regularity is broken by a sudden cross shove, ah1 order is destroyed, and a boiling action is produced, during the continuance of which the degree... | |
 | Robert Sidney Douglass - Missouri - 1912 - 850 pages
...have been like the blowing up of the earth accompanied by loud explosions.** Casseday says : "It seems as if the surface of the earth was afloat and set in motion by a slight application of immense power and when this regular motion is moved by a sudden cross shove all order is destroyed and a boiling... | |
 | Henry McMurtrie - Botany - 1819 - 298 pages
...motion varies. It seemed as if the surface of the earth was afloat and set in motion by a • liirhi application of immense power, but when this regularity...sudden cross shove, all order is destroyed, and a boiling action is produced, during the continuance of which the degree of violence is greatest and... | |
 | Myron L. Fuller - Nature - 1993 - 138 pages
...blowing up of the earth accompanied by loud explosions.1 Casscday writes: 2 "It seems as if the sin-face of the earth was afloat and set in motion by a slight application of immense power, but when tin's regularity is broken by a sudden cross shove, all order is destroyed, and a boiling action is... | |
 | 500 pages
...who seems to have given much attention to these phenomena, and classified them carefully. He said : " It seemed as if the surface of the earth was afloat...in motion by a slight application of immense power, then a boiling action succeeded, houses oscillate, gables and chimneys of many houses are thrown down."... | |
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It seems as if the surface of the earth was afloat and set in motion by a slight application of immense power, but when this regularity is broken by a sudden cross shove, all order is destroyed, and a boiling action is produced, during the continuance... 