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The next Ihiog to which the guide calls the allentioa, ia the Flitch of Bacotif a large incruf* tation hanging on one fide, which you quickly pafs by:, aod then come to. afmall door, which affords a moll ftupendous view of a concave.
The British Tourists: Through England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland ... William Fordyce Mavor , William Mavor , Samuel John Neele, C Rivers 1798
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On this illand, beiide the great conic hill of Hoyhead, which is a feamark, there is a ftupendous rock, called the Beary, where a bird, named the layer, fupppfed to be a fpecies of penguin, is found.
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On a pointed rock, overhanging this ftupendous fcene, Itands a Iblitary tower j • lately inhabited, but now in ruins.
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Some of their bells are of a ftupendous ilze: they hang in belfries detached from the church, are fixed invmovcably to the beams, and nmg by a rope tied to the clapper.
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Ill then would it become us, with the vain fpirit of fpeculatlve curiofity, to pry into the means whereby this ftupendous a6l of mercy is accompliftxed, or to queftion their propriety.
Sermons: By the Late Right Reverend John Hinchliffe, ... ... John Hinchliffe 1796
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They fure the moft ftupendous of any hereabout, and very numerous, and broken into the raoft irre - gular fantaftic fhapes, but concur to form a bold and riidecontraft to the foftcr parts of the landfcape.
Topographia hibernica : or The topography ofIreland, antient and modern. Giving a complete view of the civil and ecclesiastical state of that kingdom; with its antiquities, natural curiosities, trade, manufactures, extent and population Seward, William Wenman 1795
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What an immenfe colledion of inflammable materials in the bowels of the earth is requifite to produce the ftupendous efFe£ls; and whence is that vaft fupply of vital air which is neceflary to maintain the general combuftion?
The Monthly Review 1795
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There is an extenfive rock of jafper near Portfoy, in BanfFfbire; and the greater part of the ftupendous mountain of Bineves, in Lochaber, is compofed of red granite. —
The English Review, Or, An Abstract of English and Foreign Literature 1791
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Penmaen Mawr, a ftupendous rock near Aberconway in Camarvon -
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And fo precifely is this ftupendous operation calculated, that, on the 25th of September, only three days after the equinox, the
Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 1790
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