 | Science - 1825 - 452 pages
...sponge fully into view, I beheld, for the first time, the splendid spectacle of this living fountain vomiting forth, from a circular cavity, an impetuous...rapid succession, opaque masses, which it strewed every where around. The beauty and novelty of such a scene in the animal kingdom, long arrested ray... | |
 | Science - 1825 - 440 pages
...sponge fully into view, I beheld, for the first time, the splendid spectacle of this living fountain vomiting forth, from a circular cavity, an impetuous...rapid succession, opaque masses, which it strewed every where around. The beauty and novelty of such a scene in the animal kingdom, long arrested my... | |
 | Science - 1826 - 628 pages
...sponge fully into view. I beheld, for the first time, the splendid spectacle of this living fountain vomiting forth, from a circular cavity, an impetuous...rapid succession, opaque masses, which it strewed every where around. The btauty and novelty of such a scene in the animal kingdom, long arrested my... | |
 | Robert Bentley Todd - Anatomy - 1849 - 924 pages
...matter, and hurling along in rapid succession, opaque masses, which it strewed every where around. Tne beauty and novelty of such a scene in the animal kingdom, long arrested my attention ; but alter twenty-five minutes of constant observation I was obliged to withdraw itiy eye, from fat gne,... | |
 | Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1836 - 436 pages
...vhere around. Thn beauty and novelty of such a cene in the animal kingdom long arrested my atteniou ; but after twenty-five minutes of constant observation,...without having seen the torrent for one instant change ts direction, or diminish, in the slightest degree, the apidity of its course. I continued to watch... | |
 | Peter Mark Roget - Biology - 1836 - 442 pages
...sponge fully into view, I beheld, for the first time, the splendid spectacle of this living fountain, vomiting forth, from a circular cavity, an impetuous...rapid succession, opaque masses, which it strewed every where around. The beauty and novelty of such* a scene in the animal kingdom, long arrested my... | |
 | 1842 - 1008 pages
...beheld, for the first time, the splendid spectacle of this living foum&in, vomiting forth, from tt circular cavity, an impetuous torrent of liquid matter,...opaque masses, •which it strewed everywhere around. T^ia beauty and novelty of such a scene in the animal kingdom long; arrested my attention, but after... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1845 - 824 pages
...sea-water, " I beheld," says he, " for the first time the splendid spectacle of this living fountain vomiting forth from a, circular cavity an impetuous...in rapid succession opaque masses which it strewed every where around. The beauty and novelty of such a scene in the animal kingdom long arrested my attention... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1845 - 604 pages
...sea-water, " I beheld," says he, " for the first time the splendid spectacle of this living fountain vomiting forth from a circular cavity an impetuous...in rapid succession opaque masses which it strewed every where around. The beauty and novelty of such a scene in the animal kingdom long arrested my attention... | |
 | American literature - 1845 - 606 pages
...sea-water, " I beheld," says he, " for the first time the splendid spectacle of this living fountain vomiting forth from a circular cavity an impetuous...in rapid succession opaque masses which it strewed every where around. The beauty and novelty of such a scene in the animal kingdom long arrested my attention... | |
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I beheld, for the first time, the splendid spectacle of this living fountain vomiting forth from a circular cavity an impetuous torrent of liquid matter, and hurling along, in rapid succession, opaque masses, which it strewed everywhere around. The beauty... 
