 | Gerald Molloy - 1870 - 384 páginas
...Treatise: "The finest example I have ever witnessed is that of the coal mines of Bohemia just mentioned. The most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon...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... | |
 | Paul Ansel Chadbourne - 1871 - 336 páginas
...graphic account of the rich profusion of beauty in the petrified plants of the Bohemian coal-mines. " The most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon...instructive coal-mines are overhung. The roof is covered with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry enriched with festoons of most graceful foliage, flung in wild,... | |
 | William Denton - 1872 - 348 páginas
...as perfect as artist ever drew. Dr. Buck land thus eloquently describes the Bohemian coal-rnines: " 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... | |
 | Gerald Molloy - 1873 - 496 páginas
...Treatise : " The finest example I have ever witnessed is that of the Coal mines of Bohemia just mentioned. The most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon...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... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 1170 páginas
...Of the coal-mines of Bohemia it has been said that the most elaborate imitations of living f ullage upon the painted ceilings of Italian palaces bear...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... | |
 | Brighton and Hove Natural History and Philosophical Society, Brighton - 1874 - 800 páginas
...was found — the vegetable remains of a past time. Buckland said that, in the coal mines of Bohemia, the most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon the painted ceilings of Italian palaces, bore no comparison with the beauteous profusion of extinct vegetable forms with which the galleries... | |
 | Joel Dorman Steele - 1874 - 314 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 the painted ceilings of Italian palaces, hear no comparison with the beauteous profusion with which the galleries of these instructive coal... | |
 | Alfred Edward Lawson Lowe - 1876 - 340 páginas
...bricks annually; and here, too, are several important collieries of more than ordinary interest. " The most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon the painted ceilings of Italian palaces," says Buckland, " bear no comparison with the beauteous profusion of extinct vegetable forms with which... | |
 | Joel Dorman Steele - 1876 - 302 páginas
...of their huge prostrate stems are frequent. * " The most elaborate imitations of living foliage npon the painted ceilings of Italian 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 - 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... | |
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Coal mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons of most graceful foliage, flung in wild irregular profusion over every portion of its surface. 
