 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. The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal-black colour of these vegetables,...  The Quarterly Review - Page 66edited by - 1836Full view - About this book
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1836 - 956 pages
...vegetable forms with which the galleries of these instructive coal mines are overhung. The roof is cgvcrcd as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons of most graceful foliage flung jn wild irregular profusion over every portion of its surface. The effect is hieghtened by the contrast... | |
 | Ohio. Geologist - Botany - 1836 - 498 pages
...gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons of most graceful foliage, flung in wild, irregular profusion every portion of its surface. The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal black color of these vegetables with the light groundwork of the rock to which they are attached.... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1837 - 520 pages
...canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons of most graceful foliage, (lung in wild irregiflar profusion over every portion of its surface. The effect...coal-black colour of these vegetables with the light ground-work of the .rock to which they are attached. The spectator feels himself transported, as if... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - Geology - 1839 - 464 pages
...canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons of most graceful foliage, * Silurian System, p. 100. flung in wild irregular profusion over every portion...coal-black colour of these vegetables, with the light ground-work of the rock to which they are attached. The spectator feels transported, as if by enchantment,... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - Geology - 1839 - 444 pages
...gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons of most graceful foliage, * Silurian System, p. 100. VOL. II. RR flung in wild irregular profusion over every portion...coal-black colour of these vegetables, with the light ground-work of the rock to which they are attached. The spectator feels transported, as if by enchantment,... | |
 | Maria Hack - Geology - 1839 - 464 pages
...just that effect on Dr. Buckland, when he beheld the roofs of those galleries appearing like canopies of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons of most graceful foliage, flung in wild, irregular confusion over every part of the surface'. He says, and you may readily suppose it, the effect is heightened... | |
 | Science - 1842 - 496 pages
...forms with which the galleries of these instructive coal mines are overhung. The roof is covered as a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons...surface. The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal black color of these vegetables with the light ground work of the rock to which they were attached.... | |
 | 1844 - 498 pages
...canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons of most graceful foliage, flung in wild irrcsular profusion over every portion of its surface. The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal black colour of these vegetables with the liu'ht ground-work of the rock to which they are attached.... | |
 | Joseph Hall Wright - Paleoceanography - 1845 - 192 pages
...course. Char. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons of the most graceful foliage, flung in wild irregular profusion...portion of its surface. The effect is heightened by the coal-black colour of these vegetables, with the light ground of the rock to which they are attached.... | |
 | 1845 - 420 pages
...their forms with great perfection. Dr. Buckland remarks of a mine in Bohemia, " The roof is covered with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons of most graceful foliage, flung in wild and irregular profusion over every portion of its surface. The effect is heightened by the contrast... | |
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