 ... the dreadful catastrophe which followed ; for the sea, as is usual on such occasions, receding to a considerable distance, returned in mountainous waves, foaming with the violence of the agitation, and suddenly buried Callao and the neighbouring country...  Ada Reis [by Lady C. Lamb]. - Page 125by lady Caroline Lamb - 1823Full view - About this book
 | 1834 - 440 pages
...when compared with the dreadful catastrophe which followed. The sea, as is usual on such occasions, receding to a considerable distance, returned in mountainous waves, foaming with the violence of the agitation, and suddenly buried Callao' and the neighboring country in its flood. This however was not... | |
 | 1834 - 438 pages
...when compared with the dreadful catastrophe which followed. The sea, as is usual on such occasions, receding to a considerable distance, returned in mountainous waves, foaming with the violence of the agitation, and suddenly buried' Callao and the neighbouring country in ils flood. This however was... | |
 | Joseph Taylor - 1838 - 672 pages
...inconsiderable when compared with the dreadful catastrophe which followed ; for the sea, as usual, receding to a considerable distance, returned in mountainous waves, foaming with the violence of the agitation, and suddenly turned Callao and the neighbouring country into a sea. This, however, was not... | |
 | 1853 - 444 pages
...when compared with the dreadful catastrophe which followed. The sea, as is usual on such occasions, receding to a considerable distance, returned in mountainous waves, foaming with the violence of the agitation, and suddenly buried Callao and the neighbouring country in its flood. This, however, was... | |
 | James George Frazer - 1918 - 616 pages
...compared with the terrible catastrophe which followed ; for the sea, as is usual on such occasions, receding to a considerable distance, returned in mountainous waves foaming with the violence of the agitation, and suddenly turned Callao, and the neighbouring country, into a sea. This was not, however,... | |
 | Jay Kinsbruner - 2010 - 199 pages
...tremors) were felt. "The fort of Callao, at the very same hour, sunk into the like ruins ... the sea ... receding to a considerable distance, returned in mountainous waves foaming with the violence of the agitation, and suddenly turned Callao, and the neighbouring country, into a sea." And this the sea... | |
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