 I saw from the SE a haze come in colour like the purple part of a rainbow, but not so compressed or thick; it did not occupy twenty yards in breadth, and was about twelve feet high from the ground. It was a kind of...  The Family Library (Harper). - Page 2941842Full view - About this book
 | 1790 - 522 pages
...out, nvith a loud voice, "' Fail upon óîöã faces, fer here is the fimoom.' I law from the S. £. a haze come, in colour like the purple part of the rainbow, but not fo compreflfed or thick. It did not occupy twenty yards in breadth, and was about twelve feet high... | |
 | 1790 - 614 pages
...Idris cried out, with a loud voice, Fall upon your faces, for here is the fimoom. I faw from the SE a haze come, in colour like the purple part of the rainbow, but not fo coniprcfled or thick. It did not occupy twenty yards in breadth, and was about twelve feet high... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1790 - 606 pages
...Idris cried our, with a loud voice, Fall upon your faces, for here is the liinoom. I faw from the SE a haze come, in colour like the purple part of the rainbow, but not fo corhpreffed or thick. It did not occupy twenty yards in breadth, and was about twelve feet high... | |
 | 1790 - 612 pages
...cried jut, with a loud voice, Fall upon your taces, for here is the fimoorrt. I uw from the SE a h.ize come, in colour like the purple part of the rainbow, but not lo compieffed or thick. It did not occupy twenty yards in breadth, and was about twelve feet high from... | |
 | George Gregory - 1796 - 620 pages
...cried out, with a loud voice, Fall upon your faces, for here is the fimoom. I faw from the fouth eaft a haze come, in colour like the. purple part of the rainbow, but not fo comprefied or thick. It did not occupy twenty yards in breadth, and was about twelve feet high from... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - 1798 - 472 pages
...fimoom!' I faw from the SE a haze come in colour like the purple part of a rainbow, but not ib compreffed or thick; it did not occupy twenty yards in breadth,...twelve feet high from the ground. It was a kind of a felufh upon the air, and it moved very rapidly, for I fcarce could turn to fall upon the ground,... | |
 | George Gregory - 1798 - 630 pages
...colour like the purple part of the rainbow, but not fo comprefled or thick. It did not occupy twen'y yards in breadth, and was about twelve feet high from the ground* It was a kind of blufh upon the air, and it moved very rapidly, for I fcarce could turn to fall upon the ground with... | |
 | Henry Robertson (M.D.) - 1808 - 452 pages
...voice, " Fall upon your faces, for here is the simoom." I saw from the south-east a haze come, in the colour like the purple part of the rainbow, but not...twelve feet high from the ground : it was a kind of a blush upon the air, and it moved very rapidly, for I scarce could turn to fall upon the ground, with... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 824 pages
...ë loud voice, Fall upon S'œ* your face», for here is the fimoom. I faw from the . I. iouth call a haze come, in colour like the purple part * of the rainbow, but not fo comprtflsd or thick. It did not occupy twenty yards in breadth, and was about twelve fett high from... | |
 | 1812 - 572 pages
...their limbs mortified. Mr. Bruce describes this wind, which he calls the Simoom, as a kind of haze, ' in colour like the purple part of the rainbow, but not so compressed or thick. Jtdid not occupy twenty yards in breadth, and was about twelve feet high from the ground ;' it moved... | |
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