 | William Sidney Gibson - Bible and geology - 1840 - 328 pages
...Bohemia are particularly beautiful, and the following description is too graphic to be omitted here. " The most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon...forms with which the galleries of these instructive coal mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons... | |
 | Science - 1842 - 496 pages
...have ever witnessed is that of Bohemia just mentioned. The most elaborate imitations of living foilage upon the painted ceilings of Italian palaces, bear...forms with which the galleries of these instructive coal mines are overhung. The roof is covered as a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons... | |
 | 1844 - 498 pages
...Bucklaud thus writes: — "The most elaborate imitations of living louage upon the painted ttilingsof Italian palaces bear no comparison with the beauteous...forms with which the galleries of these instructive coal mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with u-etoons... | |
 | Joseph Hall Wright - Paleoceanography - 1845 - 192 pages
...forget, sir, there are no ladies there. Char. Oh, I quite believe it, Jane. I recollect hi Bohemia, the most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon...forms with which the galleries of these instructive coal mines are overhung. The roof is covered Louisa. Pardon me, Charles. It seems amazingly like something... | |
 | 1845 - 420 pages
...their forms with great perfection. Dr. Buckland remarks of a mine in Bohemia, "The roof is covered with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons of most graceful foliage, flung in wild and irregular profusion over every portion of its surface. Tiie effbct is heightened by the contrast... | |
 | Astronomy - 1847 - 110 pages
...Dr. Buckland, "is that of the coal mines of Bohemia. The most elaborate imitations of living foilage upon the painted ceilings of Italian palaces bear no comparison with the beauteous profusion of external vegetable forms with which the galleries of these instructive mines are overhung. The roof... | |
 | Astronomy - 1847 - 112 pages
...vegetable forms with which the galleries of these instructive mines are overhung. The roof is covered with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons of most graceful foilage, hung in wild irregular profusion over every portion of its surface. The effect is heightened... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - Geology - 1848 - 478 pages
...will describe them in his own eloquent language. "The most elaborate imitations of living foliage on the painted ceilings of Italian palaces, bear no comparison...canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons of the most graceful foliage, flung in wild irregular profusion over every portion of its surface. The... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
...little change at all excepting that of colour. Dr. Buckland remarks of the Bohemian coal mines : — " The most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon...forms, with which the galleries of these instructive coal mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons... | |
 | Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1850 - 716 pages
...marshal before us the living nations ; and of history to rehearse the fortunes of the elder world. I might call on natural science to open the volumes...with the beauteous profusion of extinct vegetable forma, with which the galleries of these instructive coal mines are overhung. The roof is covered,... | |
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Coal mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons of most graceful foliage, flung in wild irregular profusion over every portion of its surface. 
