 This dreadful tragedy ended, when it happens in a town, the devastation is surveyed with accumulated horror : the harbour is covered •with wrecks of boats and vessels ; and the shore has not a vestige of its former state remaining. Mounds of rubbish...  Four Years' Residence in the West Indies - Page 534by Frederick William N. Bayley - 1830 - 693 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Coke - Haiti - 1811 - 560 pages
...the wrecks of boats and vessels ; " and the shore has not a vestige of its former state remain" ing. Mounds of rubbish and rafters in one place, heaps...spectacle, generally followed by famine, and, when ac" companied by an earthquake, with mortal diseases. " Such were the hurricanes that left melancholy... | |
 | Thomas Coke - Haiti - 1811 - 560 pages
...the wrecks of boats and vessels ; " and the shore has not a vestige of its former state remain" ing. Mounds of rubbish and rafters in one place, heaps...the shocking conclusion of a " spectacle, generally fallowed by famine, and, when ac" companied by an earthquake, with mortal diseases. " Such were the... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Curiosities and wonders - 1821 - 768 pages
...happens in a town, the devastation is surveyed with accumulated horror: the harbour is covered with wrecks of boats and vessels ; and the shore has not...and trunks of trees in another; deep gullies from torn HIS of water; and the dead and dying bodies of men, •women, and children, half buried, and scattered... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Wonder - 1821 - 788 pages
...has not a \ .is formerstate remaining. Mounds of rubbish and ratters in one place ; heaps of cftrth and trunks of trees in another; deep gullies from...torrents of water; and the dead and dying bodies of men, , and children, .id scattered ali> where streets but a few :,.re were, present to ierable survivors... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 396 pages
...happens in a town, the devastation is surveyed with accumulated horror : the harbour is covered •with wrecks of boats and vessels ; and the shore has not...before were, present the miserable survivors with a shocking conclusion of a spectacle to be followed by famine, and, when accompanied by an earthquake,... | |
 | Andrew Thomson - Readers - 1835 - 302 pages
...happens in a town, the devastation is surveyed with accumulated horror : the harbour is covered with wrecks of boats and vessels ; and the shore has not...where streets but a few hours before were, present to the miserable survivors a shocking conclusion of a spectacle to be foliowed by famine, and, when... | |
 | Children's literature - 1846 - 872 pages
...town, the devastation is surveyed with accumulated horror ; the harbour is covered with wrecks of 412 boats and vessels, and the shore has not a vestige...scattered about, where streets but a few hours before were — all present the miserable survivors with the shocking conclusion of a spectacle to be followed... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1843 - 914 pages
...happens in a town, the devastation is surveyed with accumulated horror: the harbour is covered with wrecks of boats and vessels; and the shore has not...buried, and scattered about, where streets but a few hoars before were, present the miserable survivors with a shocking conclusion of a spectacle to be... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1853 - 880 pages
...obliged to furnish a man ; and thus from the Hungarian words husz (twenty), and ar (pay, was formed the its former state remaining. Mounds of rubbish and...before were. present the miserable survivors with a shocking conclusion of a spectacle to be followed by famine, and, when accompanied by an earthquake,... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1853 - 872 pages
...earth and trunk* of trees in another, deep I gullies from torrents of water, and the dead j and (lying bodies of men, women, and children, half buried, and...before were, present the miserable survivors with a shocking conclusion of a spectacle to be followed by famine, and, when accompanied by an earthquake,... | |
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