 ... it with the greatest precision, and the delusion of its being a sheet of water was thus rendered still more perfect. I had often seen the mirage in Syria and Egypt, but always found it of a whitish colour, rather resembling a morning mist, seldom...  The Dublin review - Page 5261837Full view - About this book
 | John Lewis Burckhardt - Egypt - 1819 - 654 pages
...shadows of the mountains which bordered the horizon were reflected on it with the greatest precision, and the delusion of its being a sheet of water was...and had the most perfect resemblance to water. The great dryness of the air and earth in this desert may be the cause of the difference. The appearance... | |
 | English literature - 1820 - 612 pages
...shadows of the mountains which bordered the horizon were reflected on it with the greatest precision, and the delusion of its being a sheet of water was thus rendered still more perfect. 1 had often seen the mirage in Syria and Kcypt, but always found it of a whitish colour, rather resembling... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - Geography - 1823 - 512 pages
...shadows of the mountains, which bordered the horizon, were reflected by it with the greatest precision, and the delusion of its being a sheet of water was thus rendered still more perfect. 1 had often seen the mirage in Syria and Egypt, but always found it of a whitish colour, rather resembling... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1827 - 462 pages
...were reflected on it with the greatest precision, and the delusion of its being a sheet of water was rendered still more perfect. I had often seen the...and had the most perfect resemblance to water. The great dryness of the earth and air, in this desart, may be the cause of the difference. (The appearance... | |
 | James Rennie - Elephants - 1829 - 440 pages
...shadows of the mountains which bordered the horizon were reflected in it with the greatest precision, and the delusion of its being a sheet of water was...steady on the plain, but in continual vibration; but • Lyon, p. 347. t Nubia, p. 193. here it was very different, and had the most perfect resemblance... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 824 pages
...shadows of the mountains which bordered the horizon were reflected on it with the greatest precision, and the delusion of its being a sheet of water was...Syria and Egypt, but always found it of a whitish color, rattier resembling a morning mist, seldom lying steady on the plain, but in continual vibration,... | |
 | Robert Smith - Society of Friends - 1829 - 432 pages
...shadows of the mountains, which bordered the horizon, were reflected by it with the greatest precision; and the delusion of its being a sheet of water was thus rendered still more perfect. 1 had often seen the mirage in Syria and Egypt, but always found it of a whitish colour, rather resembling... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - Explorers - 1832 - 430 pages
...shadows of the mountains that bordered the horizon were reflected on it with the greatest precision, and the delusion of its being a sheet of water was thus rendered still more perfect." This mockwater, however, only served to heighten the terrors which the scarcity of real water excited.... | |
 | Selina Martin - Children - 1832 - 242 pages
...shadows of the mountains which bordered the horizon were reflected in it with the greatest precision, and the delusion of its being a sheet of water, was thus rendered still more perfect. There was at one time about a dozen of these false lakes around us, each separated from the other,... | |
 | 1834 - 498 pages
...shadows of the mountains, which bordered the horizons, were reflected in it with the greatest precision, and the delusion of its being a sheet of water was...resembling a morning mist, seldom lying steady on the piain, but in continual vibration ; but liere it was very different, and had the most perfect resemblance... | |
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