| Godfrey Basil Mundy - 1836 - 316 페이지
...were obliged to dig from the ruins the necessaries of life, and clothes to cover themselves with. " This general wreck had a remarkable effect on the...bark. The sea rose as high as to destroy the fort, carrying the great guns many yards from the platform, and demolishing the houses near the beach. A... | |
| sir William Reid - 1838 - 474 페이지
...amounted to more than 3000, though several parishes had not given in their returns when I was there. * * * All the fruits of the earth, then standing, have been...island have been torn up by the roots ; and (what will give as strong an idea of the force of the wind as any thing) many of them were stripped of their hark.... | |
| William Reid - 1838 - 470 페이지
...have heen destroyed ; most of the trees of the island have heen torn up hy the roots ; and (what will give as strong an idea of the force of the wind as any thing) many of them were stripped of their hark. The sea rose as high as to destroy the fort, carrying the great guns many yards from the platform,... | |
| 1839 - 496 페이지
...amounted to more than 3000, though several parishes had not given in the returns, when I was there. All the fruits of the earth, then standing, have been...island have been torn up by the roots ; and, what will give as strong an idea of the force of the wind as anything, many of them were stripped of their bark.... | |
| William Reid - 1846 - 626 페이지
...their returns when I was there. * * * All the fruits of the earth, then standing, have been destroyed j most of the trees of the island have been torn up by the roots ; and (what will give as strong an idea of the force of the wind as any thing) many of them were stripped of their bark.... | |
| William Reid - 1850 - 586 페이지
...amounted to more than 3000, though several parishes had not given in their returns when I was there. * * * All the fruits of the earth, then standing, have been...island have been torn up by the roots ; and (what will give as strong an idea of the force of the wind as any thing) many of them were stripped of their bark.... | |
| LIEUT-COLONEL W. REID - 1850 - 580 페이지
...amounted to more than 3000, though several parishes had not given in their returns when I was there. * * * All the fruits of the earth, then standing, have been...island have been torn up by the roots ; and (what will give as strong an idea of the force of the wind as any thing) many of them were stripped of their bark.... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1882 - 408 페이지
...helpless wounded and dying could not be heard amidst the crash of ruins and the noise of the elements All the fruits of the earth then standing have been...give as strong an idea of the force of the wind as anything) many of them were stripped of their bark. The sea rose so high as to destroy the fort, carrying... | |
| Louis A. Pérez - 2001 - 220 페이지
...and appeared as withered trunks." Sir Gilbert Blane had witnessed something similar in October 1780: "All the fruits of the earth, then standing, have...island have been torn up by the roots; and (what will give as strong an idea of the force of the wind as anything) many of them were stripped of their bark."... | |
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