Introduction to MeteorologyW. Blackwood and sons, 1849 - 487 páginas |
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... heat . 67. Extreme cold . 68. Excessive cold may be borne with impunity . 69. Extraordinary heat borne without injury . 70 . Effect of intense cold on sound . 71. Provision made by the Esquimaux for spending their dreary winters ...
... heat . 67. Extreme cold . 68. Excessive cold may be borne with impunity . 69. Extraordinary heat borne without injury . 70 . Effect of intense cold on sound . 71. Provision made by the Esquimaux for spending their dreary winters ...
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... Heat . 116. Dal- ton's researches . 117. Vaporic force . 118. Dove's theory of the influence of winds on tension of vapour . 119. Humidity of the atmosphere . 120. Specific gravity of moist air . 121. Law of vaporic exhalations . 122 ...
... Heat . 116. Dal- ton's researches . 117. Vaporic force . 118. Dove's theory of the influence of winds on tension of vapour . 119. Humidity of the atmosphere . 120. Specific gravity of moist air . 121. Law of vaporic exhalations . 122 ...
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... Heat , and Electricity , pro- bably identical . 301. Practical application of lightning . 302. Tra- vellers electrified by induction . 303. Different kinds of lightning . 304. Thunder . 305. In the Tropics , and mountain districts . 306 ...
... Heat , and Electricity , pro- bably identical . 301. Practical application of lightning . 302. Tra- vellers electrified by induction . 303. Different kinds of lightning . 304. Thunder . 305. In the Tropics , and mountain districts . 306 ...
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... heat in the course of a revolution . But it is not when the sun has acquired his greatest northern declination that the maximum annual temperature is gained ; this epoch occurs some time after the summer solstice , when the caloric re ...
... heat in the course of a revolution . But it is not when the sun has acquired his greatest northern declination that the maximum annual temperature is gained ; this epoch occurs some time after the summer solstice , when the caloric re ...
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... heat to a mixture of chlorate of potassa and about a sixth of black oxide of manganese , in a glass retort . The gas comes over rapidly and in great purity , while the decomposition is taking place even at a low temperature . Thus with ...
... heat to a mixture of chlorate of potassa and about a sixth of black oxide of manganese , in a glass retort . The gas comes over rapidly and in great purity , while the decomposition is taking place even at a low temperature . Thus with ...
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Página 90 - How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the silent air, No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven : In full-orbed glory yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths.
Página 227 - It is not noon— the Sunbow's rays still arch The torrent with the many hues of heaven, And roll the sheeted silver's waving column O'er the crag's headlong perpendicular, And fling its lines of foaming light along, And to and fro, like the pale courser's tail, The Giant steed, to be bestrode by Death, As told in the Apocalypse.
Página 173 - Ye ice-falls ! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain— Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty Voice, And stopp'd at once amid their maddest plunge ! Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts ! Who made you glorious as the gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon ? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows ? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet ?— God...
Página 220 - O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or, mirrored in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down ! As fresh in yon horizon dark, As young thy beauties seem. As when the eagle from the ark First sported in thy beam. For, faithful to its sacred page, Heaven still rebuilds thy span • Nor lets the type grow pale with age That first spoke peace to man.
Página 173 - Ye ice-falls! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain — Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? God! — let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, God!
Página 108 - I am the daughter of earth and water, And the nursling of the sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores ; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when, with never a stain, The pavilion of heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams, Build up the blue dome of air...
Página 108 - I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when with never a stain, The pavilion of heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams, Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.
Página 220 - I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Página 390 - Because my nature was averse from life; And yet not cruel; for I would not make, But find a desolation. Like the wind, The red-hot breath of the most lone Simoom, Which dwells but in the desert and sweeps o'er The barren sands which bear no shrubs to blast, And revels o'er their wild and arid waves, And seeketh not, so that it is not sought, But being met is deadly, — such hath been The course of my existence; but there came Things in my path which are no more.
Página 173 - Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds! And they too have a voice, yon piles of snow, And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God!