 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1837 - 568 str.
...not how long it has existed, and our ancestors were on this subject as ignorant as ourselves.' Five centuries afterwards, as I passed by the same place,...could not perceive the slightest vestige of the city. 1 demanded of a peasant who was gathering herbs, upon its former site, how long it had been destroyed.... | |
 | 1841 - 456 str.
...ancestors were on the same subject as ignorant as ourselves.' One thousand years afterwards, as I passed hy the same place, I could not perceive the slightest vestige of the city, and demanded of a peasant, who was gathering herbs upon its former site, how long it had been destroyed.... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow - 1847 - 640 str.
...not how long it has existed ; and on that subject our ancestors were as ignorant as ourselves.' Five centuries afterwards, as I passed by the same place,...city. I demanded of a peasant who was gathering herbs on its former site, how long it had been destroyed ? 'In sooth, a strange question!' said he, "the... | |
 | British geology - 1850 - 332 str.
...how long it has been founded, and our ancestors on this subject were as ignorant as ourselves.' Five centuries afterwards, as I passed by the same place,...city. I demanded of a peasant who was gathering herbs on its former site, how long it had been destroyed. ' In sooth, a strange question,' replied he ; '... | |
 | James Munson Olmstead - 1853 - 428 str.
...not how long it has existed, and our ancestors were on this subject as ignorant as ourselves.' Five centuries afterwards, as I passed by the same place,...gathering herbs upon its former site, how long it bad been destroyed. ' In sooth, a strange question,' replied he. ' The ground here has never been different... | |
 | William Keddie - 1854 - 400 str.
...not how long it has existed, and our ancestry were on this subject as ignorant as ourselves.' Five centuries afterwards, as I passed by the same place,...site, how long it had been destroyed ? ' In sooth, astrange question !' replied he. 'The ground here has never been diiferent from what you now behold... | |
 | F. G. S. - 1858 - 116 str.
...not how long it has existed, and our ancestors were on this subject as ignorant as ourselves.' Five centuries afterwards, as I passed by the same place,...could not perceive the slightest vestige of the city near the shore ; and the forest had been swept away, leaving but a few green patches as traces of its... | |
 | ALL. - 1859 - 380 str.
...centuries afterward, as I passed by tho sumo place, Т could not perceive tho slightest vestige of tho city. I demanded of a peasant who was gathering herbs...upon its former site, how long it had been destroyed f ' In sooth, a strange question,' replied ho, 'the ground höre has never been different from what... | |
 | William Keane (gardener.) - 1861 - 252 str.
...how long it has been founded, and our ancestors on this subject were as ignorant as ourselves.' Five centuries afterwards, as I passed by the same place,...city. I demanded of a peasant, who was gathering herbs on its former site, how long it had been destroyed. ' In sooth, a strange question,' replied he, '... | |
 | Hudson Tuttle - 1864 - 268 str.
...noc how long it has existed; and our ancestors on this subject were as ignorant as ourselves.' Five centuries afterwards, as I passed by the same place, I could not perceive the least vestige of a city. I demanded of a peasant, who was gathering herbs on its former site, how long... | |
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It is indeed a mighty city,' replied he ; ' we know not how long it has existed, and our ancestors were on this subject as ignorant as ourselves.' Five centuries afterwards, as I passed by the same place, I could not perceive the slightest vestige of... 
