| Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 768 pages
...surprising rapidity, and the sand so extremely fine, that h forms on the ground waves which resemble those of the sea. These waves rise up so fast, that in a very few hours a hill of from twenty to thirty feet high is transported from one place to another. The shifting of these hills,... | |
| 1831 - 320 pages
...wind is of a most surprising rapidity, and the sand so extremely fine, that it forms on the "ground waves which look like those of the sea. These waves...rise up so fast, that in a very few hours, a hill of from twenty to thirty feet high is transported from one place to another. This transportation of these... | |
| 1834 - 438 pages
...surprising rapidity, and the sand so extremely fine, that it forms on the ground waves which resemble those of the sea. These waves rise up so fast, that in a very few hours a hill of from twenty to thirty feet 1iigh is transported from one place to another. The shifting of these hills,... | |
| Joseph Taylor - 1838 - 672 pages
...called a little Sahara; the wind is there of a surprising rapidity, and the sand so extremely tine, that it forms on the ground some waves, which look...fast, that in a very few hours a hill of about 20 or 30 feet high is transported from one place to another. I never thought it possible, and did not... | |
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