| Godfrey Charles Mundy - 1832 - 442 páginas
...India ; but I did not suppose that mountain scenery was susceptible of it. A deep 312 FARGOO. [Ch-V, precipitous valley below us, at the bottom of •which...vapour, which played the part of water, ascending nearly half way up the sides of the vale, and on its bright surface, trees and rocks being distinctly reflected.... | |
| Mary Somerville - 1834 - 484 páginas
...mirage described by Captain Mundy, in hisJournal of a Tour in India, probably arises from this cause. ' A deep precipitous valley below us, at the bottom...which played the part of water,. ascending nearly half way up the sides of the vale, and on its bright surface trees and rocks being distinctly reflected.... | |
| Mary Somerville - 1834 - 390 páginas
...mirage described by Captain Mundy, in his Journal of a Tour in India, probably arises from this cause. ' A deep precipitous valley below us, at the bottom...evening a complete resemblance to a beautiful lake ; the vapor, which played the part of water, ascending nearly halfway up the sides of the vale, and on its... | |
| Light - 1838 - 298 páginas
...India, has also been supposed to arise from the same cause. "A deep precipitous valley," he says, " below us, at the bottom of which I had seen one or...vapour, which played the part of water, ascending nearly half way up the sides of the vale, and on its bright surface trees and rocks being distinctly reflected.... | |
| 1839 - 534 páginas
...effect of the mirage at the Shallout Pass in India. ' A deep precipitous valley below us,' says he, ' at the bottom of which I had seen one or two miserable...water, ascending nearly half-way up the sides of the vale, and on its bright surface trees and rocks being distinctly reflected.' In the horizontal or lateral... | |
| 1839 - 1032 páginas
...effect of the mirage at the Shallout Pass in India. ' A deep precipitous valley below us,' says he, ' at the bottom of which I had seen one or two miserable...water, ascending nearly half-way up the sides of the vale, and on its bright surface trees and rocks being distinctly reflected.' In the horizontal or lateral... | |
| Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - 1840 - 444 páginas
...India, has also been supposed to arise from the same cause. " A deep precipitous valley," he says, " below us, at the bottom of which I had seen one or...water, ascending nearly half.way up the sides of the vale, and on its bright surface trees and rocks being distinctly reflected. I had not been long contemplating... | |
| 1873 - 744 páginas
...at a point called the Shu limit Pass, in India. " A deep, precipitous valley below us," he states, " at the bottom of which I had seen one or two miserable...lake. The vapour, which played the part of water, ascended nearly half-way up the sides of the vale, and on its bright surface trees and rocks were distinctly... | |
| Mary Somerville - 1846 - 496 páginas
...EXTRAORDINARY REFLECTION. SEcT. XVIII. Mundy in his Journal of a Tour in India probably arises from this cause. A deep precipitous valley below us, at the bottom...evening a complete resemblance to a beautiful lake ; the vapor which played the part of water ascending nearly half way up the sides of the vale, and on its... | |
| John Brocklesby - 1848 - 256 páginas
...Mundy when traveling in India, and thus related in his Journal, may have proceeded from this* cause. " A deep precipitous valley below us, at the bottom...evening a complete resemblance to a beautiful lake ; the vapor which played the part of water ascending nearly half way up the sides of the vale, and on its... | |
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