| Sir Robert Hermann Schomburgk - 1848 - 772 páginas
...awfully grand, and the gale blew fiercely from between the north and north-east. At one AM of the 1 1 th, the tempestuous rage of the wind increased ; the storm, which at one moment blew from the north-east, suddenly shifted from that quarter and 1 The high stand of the thermometer... | |
| Charles Tomlinson - 1861 - 408 páginas
...houses being actually thrown down by its violence, while others scarcely a mile off received no damage. After midnight the continued flashing of the lightning...blew fiercely from the north and northeast; but at one o'clock AM, on the llth August, the force of the wind increased fearfully. The storm, which at... | |
| Heinrich Wilhelm Dove - 1862 - 374 páginas
...until midnight; the thermometer fell to 83° Fahrenheit, and during the calms it rose as high as 86° ; after midnight the continued flashing of the lightning...fiercely from the north and north-east ; but at 1 AM on August 1 1 the tempestuous rage of the wind increased : the storm, which at one time blew from the... | |
| Heinrich Wilhelm Dove - 1862 - 374 páginas
...until midnight; the thermometer fell to 83° Fahrenheit, and during the calms it rose as high as 86°; after midnight the continued flashing of the lightning...fiercely from the north and north-east ; but at 1 AM on August 1 1 the tempestuous rage of the wind increased : the storm, which at one time blew from the... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1868 - 822 páginas
...unusual fluctuations of the thermometer were observed. All this time the storm was only approaching. " After midnight the continued flashing of the lightning...August the tempestuous rage of the wind increased as the storm suddenly shitted and burst from the north-west and intermediate points. The upper regions... | |
| James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1868 - 512 páginas
...unusual fluctuations of the thermometer were observed. All this time the storm was only approaching. " After midnight the continued flashing of the lightning...August the tempestuous rage of the wind increased as the storm suddenly shifted and burst from the north-west and intermediate points. The upper regions... | |
| Thomas Belden Butler - 1870 - 446 páginas
...midnight ; the thermometer fell to 83° Fahrenheit, and during the calms it rose as high as 86° ; after midnight the continued flashing of the lightning...fiercely from the north and north-east ; but at 1 AM on August 1 1 th, the tempestuous rage of the wind increased, the storm which at one time blew from the... | |
| David Thomas Ansted - 1871 - 582 páginas
...unusual fluctuations of the thermometer were observed. All this time the storm was only approaching. " After midnight the continued flashing of the lightning...August the tempestuous rage of the wind increased as the storm suddenly shifted and burst from the north-west and intermediate points. The upper regions... | |
| 1872 - 264 páginas
...houses being actually thrown down by its violence, while others scarcely a mile off received no damage. After midnight the continued flashing of the lightning...blew fiercely from the north and north-east ; but at one o'clock am on the llth August the force of the wind increased fearfully. The storm, which at one... | |
| 1884 - 376 páginas
...the occurrence, is so graphic that we are tempted to make the following quotation from it *: — " After midnight the continued flashing of the lightning...fiercely from the north and north-east ; but at 1 am on Aug. 11 the tempestuous rage of the wind increased; the storm, which at one time blew from the north-east,... | |
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