 The ancient cone was of a very regular form, terminating, not as at present, in two peaks, but with a flattish summit, where the remains of an ancient crater, nearly filled up, had left a slight depression, covered in its interior by wild vines, and with...  The Wonders of Geology, Or, A Familiar Exposition of Geological Phenomena ... - Page 617by Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1838Full view - About this book
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1833 - 614 pages
...cone was of a very regular form, terminating, not, as at present, in two peaks, but with a flattish summit, where the remains of an ancient crater, nearly...wild vines, and with a sterile plain at the bottom. On the exterior, the sides of the mountains were covered with fertile fields, richly cultivated, and... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1833 - 548 pages
...Strabo. The ancient cone was of a very regular form, terminating, not, as at present, in two peaks, but with a flatfish summit, where the remains of an ancient...wild vines, and with a sterile plain at the bottom. On the exterior, the sides of the mountains were covered with fertile fields, richly cultivated, and... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 546 pages
...Strabo. The ancient cone was of a very reg&lar form, terminating, not, as at present, in two peaks, but with a flatfish summit, where the remains of an ancient...wild vines, and with a sterile plain at the bottom. On the exterior, the sides of the mountains were covered with fertile fields, richly cultivated, and... | |
 | Albert Henry Payne - 1844 - 270 pages
...cone was of a very regular form, terminating, not as at present, in two peaks, but with a flat tish summit, where the remains of an ancient crater, nearly...wild vines, and with a sterile plain at the bottom. On the exterior, the flanks of the mountains were clothed with fertile fields, richly cultivated, and... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - Geology - 1848 - 478 pages
...Vesuvius, or Somma, is about four thousand feet high, and its crest is now broken and irregular ; but when northern Italy was first colonized by the Greeks, " its cone was of a regular form, with a flattish summit, where the remains of an ancient crater, nearly filled up, had left a slight depression,... | |
 | Antiquities - 1850 - 418 pages
...cone was of a very regular form, terminating, not as at present, in two peaks, but with a flattish summit, where the remains of an ancient crater, nearly...vines, and •with a sterile plain at the bottom. On tlie exterior, the flanks of the mountain were covered with fertile fields richly cultivated, and... | |
 | Francis Lieber - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1851 - 544 pages
...cone was of a very regular form, terminating, not, as at present, in two peaks, but with a flattish summit, where the remains of an ancient crater, nearly...wild vines, and with a sterile plain at the bottom. On the exterior, the sides of the mountains were covered with fertile fields, richly cultivated, and... | |
 | Ruins - 1852 - 464 pages
...cone was of a very regular form, Terminating, not as at present, in two peaks, but with a flattish summit, where the remains of an ancient crater, nearly...wild vines, and with a sterile plain at the bottom. On the exterior, the flanks of the mountain were covered with fertile fields richly cultivated, and... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Geology - 1852 - 306 pages
...celebrated mountain is about four thousand feet high. Its summit is now broken and irregular ; but when Northern Italy was first colonized by the Greeks, " its cone was of a regular form, with a flattish summit, where the remains of an ancient crater, nearly filled up, had left a slight depression,... | |
 | William Bellamy (headmaster of Norwich diocesan model sch.) - Arithmetic - 1853 - 286 pages
...cone was of a very regnlar form, terminating, not as at present, in two peaks, bnt with a flattish summit, where the remains of an ancient crater, nearly...wild vines, and with a sterile plain at the bottom. On the exterior, the flanks of the mountain were clothed with fertile fields richly cultivated, and... | |
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