 | Patrick Brydone - Malta - 1773 - 394 pages
...five or fix hundred years: For it certainly requires fome thoufands to bring them to their greateft degree of perfection. We looked down into the craters...The circumference of this zone or great circle on jEtna is not lefs than 70 or 80 miles. It is every where fucceeded by the vineyards, orchards, and... | |
 | Books - 1774 - 690 pages
...perfection. We looked down into the craters of thefe, and attempted, but in vain, to number them. 1 The circumference of this zone, or great circle on...fucceeded by the vineyards, orchards, and corn-fields that compote the Regiane Cults, or the fertile region. This zone is much broader than the others, and extends... | |
 | Patrick Brydone - Malta - 1774 - 412 pages
...certainly requires fome thoufands to bring them to their greateft degree of perfection. We looked clown into the craters of thefe, and attempted, but in vain,...»» The circumference of this zone or great circle oa JEtna. is not lefs than 70 or 80 miles. It is every where fucceeded by the vineyards, orchards,... | |
 | Patrick Brydone - Malta - 1780 - 258 pages
...hundred years : For it certainly requires fome thoufands to bring them to their greateft degree ot perfection. We looked down into the craters of thefe,...The circumference of this zone or great circle on jEtna is not lefs than 70 or 80 miles. It i» every where fucceeded by the jjiaeyards, orchards, and... | |
 | John Adams - Voyages and travels - 1792 - 382 pages
...years : foritcertainlyrequiresfome thoufands to bring them to theirgreateft degree of perfedr-ion. We looked down into the craters of thefe, and attempted,...this zone or great circle on /Etna, is not lefs than feventy or eighty miles. It is every where fucceeded by the vineyards, orchards, and corn-fields that... | |
 | Travel - 1797 - 314 pages
...number of thofe delightful little mountains, that have been formed by the dilferent eruptions of Etna. The circumference of this zone, or great circle, on Etna, is not lefs than feventy or eighty miles. It is every where fucceeded by vineyards, orchards, and corn-fields, which... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - Discoveries in geography - 1803 - 328 pages
...number of those delightful little mountains, that have been formed by the different eruptions of Etna. The circumference of this zone, or great circle, on Etna, is not less than seventy or eighty miles. It is every where succeeded by vineyards, orchards, and corn-fields,... | |
 | Patrick Brydone - Malta - 1806 - 422 pages
...five or fix hundred years : For it certainly requires fome thoufands to bring them to their greateft degree of perfection. We looked down into the craters...vineyards, orchards, and corn-fields that compofe the Regione Culta> or the fertile region. This laft zone is much broader than the others, and extends on... | |
 | Patrick Brydone - Malta - 1806 - 428 pages
...five or fix hundred years : For it certainly requires fome thoufands to bring them to their greateft degree of perfection. We looked down into the craters...circle on ./Etna is not lefs than 70 or 80 miles. It is everywhere fucceeded by the vineyards, orchards, and corn-fields that compofe the Regione Culta, or... | |
 | John Adams - Voyages and travels - 1816 - 346 pages
...thousands to bring them to their greatest degree of perfection. We looked down into the craters of these, and attempted, but in vain, to number them. The circumference of this zone or great circle on JElna, is not less than seventy or eighty miles. It is every where succeeded by the vineyards, orchards,... | |
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All these have now acquired a wonderful degree of fertility, except a very few that are but newly formed ; that is, within... 
