 | 1817 - 522 páginas
...to the eastward of the city, terminates in abrupt cliffs along the shore. These cliffs are above 100 feet high, and considerably overhang the sea ; not...of water which had once formed here a magnificent cataract ; and may have also forced it to divide into various channels." (P. 128, 129.) Chandler has... | |
 | Sir Francis Beaufort - 1817 - 338 páginas
...to the eastward of the city, terminates in abrupt cliffs along the shore. These cliffs are above 100 feet high, and considerably overhang the sea ; not...of water which had once formed here a magnificent cataract; and may have also forced it to divide into various channels. Secondly, a few miles farther... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1824 - 774 páginas
...of the city extends a broad and high plain, terminating in abrupt cliffs, above 100 feet high, which considerably overhang the sea, " not in consequence...over them, and continually forming fresh accretions." These calcareous deposites have probably interrupted or turned aside the ancient course of the waters... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1824 - 362 páginas
...having crumbled away, but from their summit projecting in a lip, which consists of parallel lamiace, each .jutting out beyond its inferior layer ; as if water had been continually flowing over them,and continually forming fresh accretions." These caleareous deposites have probably interrupted... | |
 | John Anthony Cramer - 1832 - 436 páginas
...having crumbled " away, but from their summit projecting in a lip, " which consists of parallel laminae, each jutting out " beyond its inferior layer ; as...continually " forming fresh accretions. It is therefore not im" possible that this accumulation may have gra" dually impeded the course of that body of water "... | |
 | 1856 - 986 páginas
...having crumbled away, but from their summit projecting in a lip which consists of parallel laminœ, each jutting out beyond its inferior layer, as if...over them, and continually forming fresh accretions." Over these calcareous clift's, between Adalia and Laura, several streams, the different mouths of the... | |
 | Lucan - 1917 - 272 páginas
...base having crumbled away but from the summit projecting in a lip which consists of parallel laminae, each jutting out beyond its inferior layer as if water had been continually flowing over them 1 Italics are mine. Laara is E. of Adilia. and continually forming fresh accretions. It is therefore... | |
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Now the broad and high plain, which stretches to the eastward of the city, terminates in abrupt cliffs along the shore. These cliffs are above 100 feet high, and considerably overhang the sea ; not in consequence of their base having crumbled away, but... 