Lectures Upon Natural History: Geology, Chemistry, the Application of Steam, and Interesting Discoveries in the ArtsLilly, Wait, Colman and Holden, 1833 - 408 pages |
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Page ix
... oceans with their levia- thans , forests with their winged inhabitants , empires and kingdoms with their numberless ... ocean - pebbles , the forest - trees , the beasts of the field , the fowls of heaven , the insects that fly or crawl ...
... oceans with their levia- thans , forests with their winged inhabitants , empires and kingdoms with their numberless ... ocean - pebbles , the forest - trees , the beasts of the field , the fowls of heaven , the insects that fly or crawl ...
Page 63
... ocean , and to transport to the remotest interior of con- tinents a sufficient supply of moisture , which , when con- densed in the higher regions of the air , and on the cold sum- mits of mountains , returns in springs , streams , and ...
... ocean , and to transport to the remotest interior of con- tinents a sufficient supply of moisture , which , when con- densed in the higher regions of the air , and on the cold sum- mits of mountains , returns in springs , streams , and ...
Page 72
... ocean is full of its countless millions , all miracles in their way , and according to their kind . Examine the tor- pedoes and electric eels , which , though in appearance aban- doned in defencelessness , are in fact armed with a ...
... ocean is full of its countless millions , all miracles in their way , and according to their kind . Examine the tor- pedoes and electric eels , which , though in appearance aban- doned in defencelessness , are in fact armed with a ...
Page 93
... ocean of sand , where the tempest brings no rain , the wind no coolness , and the burning sky is tempered by no clouds . The red man of the American forest sleeps soundest , when cradled by the roar of storms ; proud in MORAL INFLUENCES ...
... ocean of sand , where the tempest brings no rain , the wind no coolness , and the burning sky is tempered by no clouds . The red man of the American forest sleeps soundest , when cradled by the roar of storms ; proud in MORAL INFLUENCES ...
Page 99
... ocean of fire . Bernier could offer no solution of this phenomenon . He had not learned from modern chemistry that air is impreg- nated with caloric , and that rapid pressure causes it to issue in the form of flame . Beside the solution ...
... ocean of fire . Bernier could offer no solution of this phenomenon . He had not learned from modern chemistry that air is impreg- nated with caloric , and that rapid pressure causes it to issue in the form of flame . Beside the solution ...
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