 | John Lewis Burckhardt - Egypt - 1819 - 654 pages
...azure, and so clear that the shadows of the mountains which bordered the horizon were reflected on it with the greatest precision, and the delusion of...found it of a whitish colour, rather resembling a morning mist, seldom lying steady on the plain, but in continual vibration ; but here it was very different,... | |
 | English literature - 1820 - 612 pages
...azure, and so clear that the shadows of the mountains which bordered the horizon were reflected on it with the greatest precision, and the delusion of...sheet of water was thus rendered still more perfect. 1 had often seen the mirage in Syria and Kcypt, but always found it of a whitish colour, rather resembling... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - Geography - 1823 - 512 pages
...azure, and so clear that the shadows of the mountains, which bordered the horizon, were reflected by it with the greatest precision, and the delusion of...sheet of water was thus rendered still more perfect. 1 had often seen the mirage in Syria and Egypt, but always found it of a whitish colour, rather resembling... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1827 - 462 pages
...azure, and so clear, that the shadows of the mountains which bordered the horizon, were reflected on it with the greatest precision, and the delusion of its being a sheet of water was rendered still more perfect. I had often seen the mirage in Syria and Egypt, but always found it of... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 824 pages
...azure, and so clear that the shadows of the mountains which bordered the horizon were reflected on it with the greatest precision, and the delusion of...Syria and Egypt, but always found it of a whitish color, rattier resembling a morning mist, seldom lying steady on the plain, but in continual vibration,... | |
 | Robert Smith - Society of Friends - 1829 - 432 pages
...azure, and so clear that the shadows of the mountains, which bordered the horizon, were reflected by it with the greatest precision; and the delusion of...sheet of water was thus rendered still more perfect. 1 had often seen the mirage in Syria and Egypt, but always found it of a whitish colour, rather resembling... | |
 | Selina Martin - Children - 1832 - 242 pages
...serdb. Its colour was of the purest azure, and so clear that the shadows of the mountains which bordered the horizon were reflected in it with the greatest...sheet of water, was thus rendered still more perfect. There was at one time about a dozen of these false lakes around us, each separated from the other,... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - Explorers - 1832 - 430 pages
...purest azure, and so clear that the shadows of the mountains that bordered the horizon were reflected on it with the greatest precision, and the delusion of...sheet of water was thus rendered still more perfect." This mockwater, however, only served to heighten the terrors which the scarcity of real water excited.... | |
 | 1834 - 498 pages
...was of the purest azure, and so clear that the shadows of the mountains, which bordered the horizons, were reflected in it with the greatest precision,...found it of a whitish colour, rather resembling a morning mist, seldom lying steady on the piain, but in continual vibration ; but liere it was very... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1837 - 596 pages
...Its colour was of the purest azure, and so clear that the shadows of the mountains which, bordered the horizon were reflected in it with the greatest...found it of a whitish colour, rather resembling a morning mist, seldom lying steady on the plain, but in continual vibration ; but here it was very different,... | |
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... it with the greatest precision, and the delusion of its being a sheet of water was thus rendered still more perfect. I had often seen the mirage in Syria and Egypt, but always found it of a whitish colour, rather resembling a morning mist, seldom... 
