 Beneath the suspension bridge across the Menai Strait in Wales, close to one of the main piers, is a remarkably fine echo. The sound of a blow on the pier with a hammer is returned in succession from each of the...  Ten thousand wonderful things - Pagina 9door Edmund Fillingham King - 1860Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1832 - 574 pagina’s
...Straits, in Wales. The sound of a blow with a hammer on one of the main piers is returned in sue* cession from each of the cross beams which support the road-way, and from tbe opposite pier at tbe distance of 576 feet ; and, in addition to this, the sound is many times repeated... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1831 - 620 pagina’s
...peculiarity became generally known, and the confessional was removed. * 4 Beneath the Suspension Bridge across the Menai Strait in Wales, close to one of...hammer is returned in succession from each of the cross-beams which support the road-way, and from the opposite pier at a distance of 576 feet; and in... | |
 | 1831 - 472 pagina’s
...peculiarity became generally known, and the confessional was removed * " Beneath the Suspension Bridge across the Menai Strait in Wales, close to one of...hammer is returned in succession from each of the cross-beams which support the road-way, and from * Travels through Sicily and the Liparl Islands in... | |
 | 1831 - 632 pagina’s
...peculiarity became generally known, and the confessional was removed. * ' Beneath the Suspension Bridge across the Menai Strait in Wales, close to one of...hammer is returned in succession from each of the cross-beams which support the road-way, and from the opposite pier at a distance of 570 feet ; and'... | |
 | 1831 - 626 pagina’s
...peculiarity became generally known, and the confessional was removed.1 ' Beneath the Suspension Bridge across the Menai Strait in Wales, close to one of...remarkably fine echo. The sound of a blow on the pier with 1 Travels through Sicily and the Li pari Islands, in the month of December, 1821, By a Naval Officer.... | |
 | 1832 - 424 pagina’s
...peculiarity became generally known and the confessional was removed. Beneath the Suspension Bridge across the Menai Strait in Wales, close to one of...hammer is returned in succession from each of the cross-beams which support the road-way, and from the opposite pier, at a distance of 579 feet ; and... | |
 | 1832 - 428 pagina’s
...The sound of a blow on the pier with a hammer is returned in succession from each of the cross-beams which support the road-way, and from the opposite pier, at a distance of 579 feet ; and in addition to this, the sound is many times repeated between the water and the road-way.... | |
 | David Brewster - 1834 - 370 pagina’s
...the Menai strait in Wales. " The sound of a blow with a hammer," says he, " on one of the main piers, is returned in succession from each of the cross beams...road-way, and from the opposite pier at a distance of five hundred and seventy-six feet; and in addition to this, the sound is many times repeated between... | |
 | Samuel Leigh (publisher.) - 1835 - 394 pagina’s
...six feet above high-water mark. This difference is very evident at low water. Beneath the Bridge, and close to one of the main piers, is a remarkably fine echo, the following account of which is given by Mr. Herschel, in the " Encyclopaedia Metropolitan :" " The sound... | |
 | Thomas Roscoe - 1837 - 332 pagina’s
...about the spot, careless of time, or of * " Beneath the Suspension Bridge across the Menai Straits, in Wales, close to one of the main piers, is a remarkably...roadway, and from the opposite pier at a distance of fire hundred and seventy-six feet ; and, in addition to this, the sound is many times repeated between... | |
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