 | Timothy Flint - Mississippi River Valley - 1826 - 410 pages
...which the motion was horizontal, and those in which it was perpendicular. The latter were attended with the explosions, and the terrible mixture of noises,...destructive phenomena were more conspicuous. In the interval of the earthquakes there was one evening, and that a brilliant and cloudless ' one, in which... | |
 | 1830 - 222 pages
...were attended by ho explosions and the terrible mixture of noises that preceded and accompanied tho earthquakes in a louder degree, but were by no means so desolating and destructive as the other. When thoy were felt, the houses crumbled, the liées waved together, tho ground sunk, and all tho destructive... | |
 | History - 1834 - 560 pages
...horizontal, and those in which it was perpendicular. The latter were attended with the explosions, and terrible mixture of noises that preceded and accompanied...destructive phenomena were more conspicuous. In the interval of the earthquake there was one evening, and that a brilliant and cloudles* one, in which... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1852 - 632 pages
...which the motion was horizontal, and those in which it was perpendicular. The latter were attended with the explosions, and the terrible mixture of noises,...houses crumbled, the trees waved together, the ground sank, and all the destructive phenomena were more conspicuous. In the interval of the earthquakes,... | |
 | Henry Howe - Mississippi River Valley - 1855 - 908 pages
...which the motion was horizontal, and those in which it was perpendicular. The latter were attended with the explosions, and the terrible mixture of noises...means so desolating and destructive as the other. Then the houses crumbled, the trees waved together, the ground sunk; while ever and anon vivid flashes... | |
 | Henry Howe - Mississippi River Valley - 1858 - 592 pages
...which the motion was horizontal, and those in which it was pcrpeudicular. The latter were attended with explosions, and the terrible mixture of noises that...means so desolating and destructive as the other. Then the houses crumbled, the trees waved together, the ground sunk ; while ever and anon vivid flashes... | |
 | John Wells Foster - History - 1869 - 480 pages
...which the motion was horizontal, and those in which it was perpendicular. The latter were attended with the explosions and the terrible mixture of noises...the other. When they were felt, the houses crumbled, and trees waved together, and the ground sank, and all the distructive phenomena were conspicuous.... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Northwest, Old - 1875 - 958 pages
...which the motion was horizontal, and those in which it was perpendicular. The latter were attended with explosions, and the terrible mixture of noises that...means so desolating and destructive as the other. The houses crumbled, the trees waved together, the ground sunk; while ever and anon vivid flashes of... | |
 | Richard Atkinson Peacock - Earthquakes - 1883 - 96 pages
...which the motion was horizontal, and those in which it was perpendicular. The latter were attended with the explosions and the terrible mixture of noises...earthquakes in a louder degree, but were by no means as desolating and destructive as the other. When they were felt the houses crumbled, and trees waved... | |
 | Newton Horace Winchell - Geology - 1902 - 488 pages
...which the motion was horizontal, and those in which it was perpendicular. The latter were attended with explosions and the terrible mixture of noises that...means so desolating and destructive as the other. In the interval of earthquakes, there was one evening— and that a brilliant and cloudless one —... | |
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And they remark that the shocks were clearly distinguishable into two classes ; those in which the motion was horizontal, and those in which it was perpendicular. The latter were attended with... 
