 | Charles Davison - Earthquakes - 1905 - 402 pages
...followed, more or less unconsciously, by Mallet in his Neapolitan work. " When the observer," he says, " first enters upon one of those earthquake-shaken towns,...light, and is appalled by spectacles of desolation. . . . Houses seem to have been precipitated to the ground in every direction of azimuth. There seems... | |
 | Charles Davison - Earthquakes - 1905 - 446 pages
...followed, more or less unconsciously, by Mallet in his Neapolitan work. " When the observer," he says, " first enters upon one of those earthquake-shaken towns,...light, and is appalled by spectacles of desolation. . . . Houses seem to have been precipitated to the ground in every direction of azimuth. There seems... | |
 | Susan Elizabeth Hough, Roger G. Bilham - Science - 2005 - 336 pages
...Frontiersmen (and -women) are, it seems, made of sterner stuff. 5 19th-century Temblors: A Science Is Born When the observer first enters upon one of those earthquakeshaken...light, and is appalled by spectacles of desolation. . . . Houses seem to have been precipitated to the ground in every direction of azimuth. —Robert... | |
 | Charles Davison - Earth scientists - 1927 - 266 pages
...until he was immersed in the investigation of the Neapolitan earthquake. "When the observer," he says, "first enters upon one of those earthquakeshaken towns,...wanders over masses of dislocated stone and mortar. . . .Houses seem to have been precipitated to the ground in every direction of azimuth. There seems... | |
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first enters upon one of those earthquake-shaken towns, he finds himself in the midst of utter confusion. The eye is bewildered by 'a city become an heap.' He wanders over masses of dislocated stone and mortar, with timbers half buried, prostrate, or... 