| Joel Dorman Steele - 1877 - 300 páginas
...height of a score or more of feet. The impressions of their huge prostrate stems are frequent. * '' The most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon...palaces, bear no comparison with the beauteous profusion with which the galleries of these instructive coal mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with... | |
| Joel Dorman Steele - 1877 - 302 páginas
...height of a score or more of feet. The impressions of their huge prostrate stems are frequent. * " The most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon...ceilings of Italian palaces, bear no comparison with the beanteons profusion with which the galleries of these instructive coal mines are overhung. The roof... | |
| Mary Elizabeth Beck - 1878 - 280 páginas
...Buckland,1 about a coal-mine in Bohemia, where he gives a description of the coal-flora he himself saw. " The most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon...these instructive coal-mines are overhung. The roof 1 Bridgewater Treatise. is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched withfestoons of... | |
| National cyclopaedia - 1879 - 624 páginas
...abundance, as may be imagined from the following graphic account of those in the coal-mines of Bohemia: — 'The most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon...coalmines are overhung. The roof is covered as with • canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons of most graceful foliage, flung in wild, irregular... | |
| Henry H. Bourn - 1882 - 232 páginas
...the beautiful foliage which is to be seen in the coal-measures of Bohemia, Dr. Buckland says : — "The most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon...is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, encircled with festoons of most graceful foliage, flung in wild, irregular profusion over every portion... | |
| Joseph Hands - 1882 - 96 páginas
...BEAUTY. — Professor Buckland, speaking of the coal-plants found in the mines of Bohemia, says, " The most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon...of extinct vegetable forms with which the galleries are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons of... | |
| Samuel Kinns - 1883 - 556 páginas
...beauteous proportions of extinct vegetable forms with which the galleries of these instructive coal mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons of a most graceful foliage, flung in wild, irregular profusion over every portion of its surface. The... | |
| Samuel Kinns - 1885 - 578 páginas
...Italian palaces bears no comparison with the * "The World before the Deluge." beauteous proportions of extinct vegetable forms with which the galleries...canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons of a most graceful foliage, flung in wild, irregular profusion over every portion of its surface. The... | |
| Samuel Kinns - 1887 - 862 páginas
...foliage upon the painted ceilings of Italian palaces bears no comparison with the beauteous proportions of extinct vegetable forms with which the galleries...canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons of a most graceful foliage, flung in wild, irregular profusion over every portion of its surface. The... | |
| Olney H. Richmond - 1896 - 262 páginas
...plentiful are the fossils in this stratum that we might almost say, "it is all fossils." Dr. Buckland says: "The most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon...palaces bear no comparison with the beauteous profusion with which the galleries of these instructive coal mines are overhung. The roof is covered with a canopy... | |
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