 It was not one sustained note, but a multitude of tiny sounds, each clear and distinct in itself ; the sweetest treble mingling with the lowest bass. On applying the ear to the woodwork of the boat, the vibration was greatly increased in volume by conduction.  Punch - Страница 83аутор(и): - 1860Пуни преглед - О овој књизи
 | 1860 - 620 страница
...the point already mentioned, I distinctly heard the sounds in question. They came up from the water like the gentle thrills of a musical chord, or the...finger. It was not one sustained note, but a multitude of tiny sounds, each clear and distinct in itself; the sweetest treble mingling with the lowest base.... | |
 | 1874 - 898 страница
...lake by moonlight, and thus describes the sounds which he heard : — " They came up from the water like the gentle thrills of a musical chord, or the...vibrations of a wine-glass when its rim is rubbed by a moistened finger. It was not one sustained note, but a multitude of tiny sounds, each clear and distinct... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1874 - 850 страница
...heard it in 1848 at Chilka Lake, an inlet of the sea on the east coast of Ceylon, describes it as ' like the gentle thrills of a musical chord, or the...wine-glass when its rim is rubbed by a wet finger . . . not one sustained note, but a multitude of tiny sounds, each clear and distinct in itself, the... | |
 | tennent - 1859 - 694 страница
...coming to the point mentioned, I distinctly heard the sounds in question. They came up from the water like the gentle thrills of a musical chord, or the...finger. It was not one sustained note, but a multitude of tiny sounds, each clear and distinct in itself ; the sweetest treble mingling with the lowest bass.... | |
 | Sir James Emerson Tennent - 1859 - 700 страница
...coming to the point mentioned, I distinctly heard the sounds in question. They came up from the water like the gentle thrills of a musical chord, or the...finger. It was not one sustained note, but a multitude of tiny sounds, each clear and distinct in itself ; the sweetest treble mingling with the lowest bass.... | |
 | 1860 - 656 страница
...coming to the point mentioned, I- distinctly heard the sounds in question. They came up from the water like the gentle thrills of a musical chord, or the...finger. It was not one sustained note, but a multitude of tiny sounds, each clear and distinct in itself; the. sweetest treble mingling with the lowest bass.... | |
 | 1860 - 390 страница
...coming to the point mentioned, I distinctly heard the sounds in question. They came up from the water like the gentle thrills of a musical chord or the...finger. It was not one sustained note, but a multitude of tiny sounds, each clear and distinct in itself — the sweetest treble mingling with the lowest... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1859 - 830 страница
...the point already mentioned, I distinctly heard the sounds in question. " They came up from the water like the gentle thrills of a musical chord, or the...finger. It was not one sustained note, but a multitude of tiny sounds, each clear and distinct in itself; the sweetest treble mingling with the lowest bass.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1860 - 624 страница
...point already mentioned, I distinctly heard the sounds in question. They cаше up from the water like the gentle thrills of a musical chord, or the...vibrations of a wine-glass when its rim is rubbed by a wet fmger. It was not one sustained note, but a multitude of tiny sounds, each clear and distinct in itself;... | |
 | Sir James Emerson Tennent - 1860 - 708 страница
...coming to the point mentioned, I distinctly heard the sounds in question. They came up from the water like the gentle thrills of a musical chord, or the...vibrations of a wine-glass when its rim is rubbed by a moistened finger. It was not one sustained note, but a multitude of tiny sounds, each clear and distinct... | |
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