| 1804 - 614 pages
...general havock occalioned by a conflict of the elements, the labourer fees whole fields of fugar-eanes whirled into the air, and Scattered over the face of the country. Large trees are torn up by the roots, and (¿riven before the wind ; their ilronccll windmills ara... | |
| Horatio Gates Spafford - Astronomy - 1809 - 448 pages
...terrible and destructive. First, they see, as a prelude to the ensuing havoc, whole fields of sugar canes •whirled into the air, and scattered over the face of the country. The strongest trees of the forest are torn up by the roots', and driven about like stubble. Wind mills... | |
| William Driverger - 1820 - 648 pages
...violent storm of wind, rain, thunder, and lightning, sometimes attended with an earthquake. You seo wkole fields of sugar-canes whirled into the air, and scattered over the face of the country. The strongest trees are torn up by the roots, and driven about like stubble; the windmills are swept... | |
| 1833 - 814 pages
...assemble, that is terrible and destructive. First — they sec, as a prelude to the ensuing havock, whole fields of sugar-canes whirled into the air, and scattered over the face of the country. The strongest trees of the forest are torn up by the roots, and driven about like stubble. Their windmills... | |
| Sir Richard Phillips - Geography - 1838 - 480 pages
...terrible and destructive. First, they see as the prelude to the ensuing havoc, whole fields of sugar-cane whirled into the air, and scattered over the face of the country : the strongest trees of the forest torn up by the roots, and driven about like stubble ; their windmills... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1839 - 710 pages
...terrible and destructive. First, they see as the prelude to the ensuing havoc, whole fields of sugar canes whirled into the air, and scattered over the face of the country. The strongest trees of the forest are torn up by the roots and driven about like stubble; their windmills... | |
| Sir Richard Phillips - Geography - 1826 - 492 pages
...terrible and destructive. First, they see as the prelude to the ensuing havoc, whole fields of sugar-cane whirled into the air, and scattered over the face of the country : the strongest trees of the forest torn up by the roots, and driven about like stubble ; their windmills... | |
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