 | Marcius Willson - Bible stories - 1862 - 558 pages
...vegetables with the light groundwork of the rock to which they arc attached. 3. " The spectator feels transported, as if by enchantment, into the forests of another world ; he beholds trees of form and character now unknown upon the surface of the earth, presented to his senses almost in the... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1863 - 394 pages
...by the contrast of the coal-black colour of these vegetables with the light ground-work of the rock to which they are attached. The spectator feels himself...transported, as if by enchantment, into the forests of De la Bbche. " To satisfy the desolate and waste ground ; and to canse the bud of the tender herb to... | |
 | David Ames Wells - Geology - 1864 - 348 pages
...these vegetables with the light groundwork of the rock to which they are attached. The spectator feels transported, as if by enchantment, into the forests of another world ; he behelds trees of form and character now unknown upon the surface of the cr.rth, presented to his senses... | |
 | David Ames Wells - 1865 - 348 pages
...these vegetables with the li^ht groundwork of the rock to which they are attached. The spectator feels transported, as if by enchantment, into the forests of another •world ; he behelds trees of form and character now unknown upon the surface of the cnrth, presented to his senses... | |
 | Paul Ansel Chadbourne - Natural theology - 1867 - 332 pages
...heightened by the contrast of the coal-black color of the plants with the light groundwork of the rock to which they are attached. The spectator feels himself...the forests of another world ; he beholds trees of form and character now unknown upon the surface of the earth, presented to his senses almost in the... | |
 | William Jones (F.S.A.) - 1868 - 360 pages
...by the contrast of the coal-black colour of these vegetables with the light groundwork of the rock to which they are attached. The spectator feels himself...of another world ; he beholds trees, of forms and character now unknown upon the surface of the earth, presented to his sense almost in the beauty and... | |
 | John Brocklesby - Physical geography - 1868 - 176 pages
...festoons of graceful foliage, flung in wild, irregular profusion over every portion of its surface. The spectator feels himself transported, as if by enchantment, into the forests of FOSSIL CRUSTACEANS. ITrllobltes.) ' FOSSIL MOLLUSK. another world, as he beholds trees of forms and... | |
 | John Wells Foster - History - 1869 - 480 pages
...by the contract of the coal-black color of these vegetables, with the light ground-work of the rock to which they are attached. The spectator feels himself...of the earth, presented to his senses almost in the beautv and vigor of their primeval life; their scaly stems and bending branches, with their delicate... | |
 | John Wells Foster - History - 1869 - 480 pages
...by the contrast of the coal-black color of these vegetables, with the light ground-work of the rock to which they are attached. The spectator feels himself...enchantment, into the forests of another world ; he beholds trots, of forms and characters now unknown upon the surface of the earth, presented to his senses almost... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1870 - 700 pages
...heightened by the contrast of the coal-black color of these vegetables with the light groundwork of the rock to which they are attached. The spectator feels himself...as if by enchantment, into the forests of another wovU ; ho beholds trees, of forms and characters now unknown upon the surface of the earth, presented... | |
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The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal-black color of these vegetables with the light groundwork of the rock to which they are attached. The spectator feels himself transported, as if by enchantment, into the forests of another world ; he... 
