Universal Science Or the Cabinet of Nature and Art, Comprising Above One Thousand Entertaining and Instructive Facts and Experiments, Volume 1G. et W.B. Whittaker, 1821 - Natural history |
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... hundred yards from it , the water was scalding hot . A fisherman who went near it , observed that the pitch at the bottom of his boat was melting fast , and floating on the surface of the sea , and that his little vessel began to leak ...
... hundred yards from it , the water was scalding hot . A fisherman who went near it , observed that the pitch at the bottom of his boat was melting fast , and floating on the surface of the sea , and that his little vessel began to leak ...
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... hundred feet ; and that the trees around them were of the same kind that are found near lagoons and salt marshes . M. Humboldt says , that at Monai in South America , there is a stratum of clayey earth , which inflames spontaneously ...
... hundred feet ; and that the trees around them were of the same kind that are found near lagoons and salt marshes . M. Humboldt says , that at Monai in South America , there is a stratum of clayey earth , which inflames spontaneously ...
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... . Mix together half a hundred weight of sul phur with the same quantity of iron filings , forming the whole into a paste , with so much water c 2 Pseudo and Artificial Volcanoes . 27 Pseudo Volcano Artificial Volcano.
... . Mix together half a hundred weight of sul phur with the same quantity of iron filings , forming the whole into a paste , with so much water c 2 Pseudo and Artificial Volcanoes . 27 Pseudo Volcano Artificial Volcano.
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... hundred toises high , had not thrown out any lava since the year 1718. Scarcely was any smoke perceived to issue from its top , when , in the month of May , 1811 , frequent shocks announced that the volcanic fire was either rekindled ...
... hundred toises high , had not thrown out any lava since the year 1718. Scarcely was any smoke perceived to issue from its top , when , in the month of May , 1811 , frequent shocks announced that the volcanic fire was either rekindled ...
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... hundred square leagues . Cotopaxi , Tunguragua , Antisana , and Pichincha , are placed on this same vault , on this raised ground . The fire issues sometimes from one , sometimes from another of these summits . The obstructed craters ...
... hundred square leagues . Cotopaxi , Tunguragua , Antisana , and Pichincha , are placed on this same vault , on this raised ground . The fire issues sometimes from one , sometimes from another of these summits . The obstructed craters ...
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Page 168 - A bird's nest. Mark it well ! — within, without ; No tool had he that wrought — no knife to cut, No nail to fix — no bodkin to insert — No glue to join ; his little beak was all. And yet how neatly finished ! What nice hand. With every implement and means of art, And twenty years...
Page 159 - See, thro' this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go! Around, how wide! how deep extend below! Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures...
Page 172 - ... sight betwixt each wide extreme, the mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam ; of smell, the headlong lioness between, and hound sagacious on the tainted green ; of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, to that which warbles through the vernal wood...
Page 172 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam ; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood!
Page 145 - But who can paint Like Nature? Can imagination boast, Amid its gay creation, hues like hers ? Or can it mix them with that matchless skill, And lose them in each other, as appears In every bud that blows...
Page 190 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away.
Page 259 - To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal and directed to contrary pans.
Page 173 - Fierce Winter sweeps them from the face of day. Even so luxurious men, unheeding, pass An idle summer life in fortune's shine, A season's glitter ! Thus they flutter on From toy to toy, from vanity to vice; Till, blown away by death, oblivion comes Behind, and strikes them from the book of life.
Page 41 - ... the preceding January or February a volcano had burst out within the sea near St. Michael's, we immediately concluded that the smoke we saw proceeded from that cause, and, on our anchoring the next morning in the road of Ponta del Gada, we found this conjecture correct as to the cause, but not to the time ; the eruption of January having totally subsided, and the present one having only burst forth two days prior to our approach, and about three miles distant from the one before alluded to.
Page 27 - ... and of longer continuance than that heard within the tropics in time of storms. This noise preceded a perpendicular motion of three or four seconds, followed by an undulatory movement somewhat longer. The shocks were in opposite directions, from north to south, and from east to west.