Gallery of Nature and Art, Or a Tour Through Creation and Science: Illustrated with 100 Plates, Volume 31815 |
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... rain for a week , the heat of the earth being 110 ° , the evaporation was found almost twice as great , or = 0.108 of an inch in the day : the mean of which two experiments is 0.084 inches , SPRINGS , RIVERS , CANALS , LAKES ,
... rain for a week , the heat of the earth being 110 ° , the evaporation was found almost twice as great , or = 0.108 of an inch in the day : the mean of which two experiments is 0.084 inches , SPRINGS , RIVERS , CANALS , LAKES ,
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... mean annual evaporation over the whole surface of the globe at 35 inches . But 35 inches from every square inch on ... means is this prodigious expanse of vapour converted into rain , in which form alone it can generate rivers , if it ...
... mean annual evaporation over the whole surface of the globe at 35 inches . But 35 inches from every square inch on ... means is this prodigious expanse of vapour converted into rain , in which form alone it can generate rivers , if it ...
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... mean of the thermometer for the whole month was 66 degrees : there was no high wind , and indeed during great part of the month little wiud at all . And this is also a fact that it is im❤ possible for us to account for . The enquiry ...
... mean of the thermometer for the whole month was 66 degrees : there was no high wind , and indeed during great part of the month little wiud at all . And this is also a fact that it is im❤ possible for us to account for . The enquiry ...
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... means or other , a kind of circulation is carried on through all nature ; and that the sea re . ceives back again , through the channel of the rivers , that water which it parts with to the atmosphere . All rivers have their source ...
... means or other , a kind of circulation is carried on through all nature ; and that the sea re . ceives back again , through the channel of the rivers , that water which it parts with to the atmosphere . All rivers have their source ...
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... means which might be employed to restrain the water of the Ierre . The same object has made him add a descrip- tion of the manner how the Rhône is lost , or rather how its course is disturbed ; for it is now very certain that it does ...
... means which might be employed to restrain the water of the Ierre . The same object has made him add a descrip- tion of the manner how the Rhône is lost , or rather how its course is disturbed ; for it is now very certain that it does ...
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Page 32 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Page 267 - The bosom of the mountains spreading here into a broad basin, discovers in the midst Grasmere Water ; its margin is hollowed into small bays, with bold eminences, some of rock, some of soft turf, that half conceal and vary the figure of the little lake they command ; from the shore a low promontory pushes itself far into the water, and on it stands a white village with the parish...
Page 245 - No rocks impede thy dimpling course, That sweetly warbles o'er its bed, With white round polish'd pebbles spread ; While, lightly poised, the scaly brood In myriads cleave thy crystal flood ; The springing trout in speckled pride ; The salmon, monarch of the tide ; The ruthless pike, intent on war, The silver eel, and mottled par. Devolving from thy parent lake, A charming maze thy waters make, By bowers of birch and groves of pine. And hedges flower'd with eglantine.
Page 50 - Dares stretch her wing o'er this enormous mass Of rushing water ; scarce she dares attempt The sea-like Plata ; to whose dread expanse, Continuous depth, and wondrous length of course, Our floods are rills.
Page 47 - Cubagua; whence he sailed to Spain. The vanity natural to travellers who visit regions unknown to the rest of mankind, and the art of an adventurer, solicitous to magnify his own merit, concurred in prompting him to mingle an extraordinary proportion of the marvellous in the narrative of his voyage. He pretended to have discovered nations so rich, that the roofs of their temples were covered with plates of gold ; and described a republic of women, so warlike and powerful, as to have extended their...
Page 267 - Not a single red tile, no flaring gentleman's house or garden walls, break in upon the repose of this little unsuspected paradise ; but all is peace, rusticity, and happy poverty in its neatest and most becoming attire.
Page 31 - Thames ! the most loved of all the Ocean's sons, By his old sire, to his embraces runs, Hasting to pay his tribute to the sea, Like mortal life to meet eternity ; Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber, and their gravel gold * : His genuine and less guilty wealth t' explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore, O'er which he kindly spreads his spacious wing, And hatches plenty for th...
Page 82 - ... naturally begin to flow on such hours of the day as the snow begins to melt ; but as soon as the sun leaves it again to freeze and harden, the fountain dries up, and receives no more supplies till about the same time the next day, when the heat of the sun again sets the snows a running, that fall into the same little conduits, traces, and canals, and by consequence break out and discover themselves always in the same place. EDITOR. 2. Comian Spring. PLINY TO LICINIUS. I HAVE brought you, as a...
Page 245 - May numerous herds and flocks be seen : And lasses chanting o'er the pail, And shepherds piping in the dale ; And ancient faith that knows no guile, And industry embrown'd with toil ; And hearts resolved and hands prepared The blessings they enjoy to guard 1 [S
Page 31 - But godlike his unwearied bounty flows, First loves to do, then loves the good he does ; Nor are his blessings to his banks confin'd, But free and common as the sea or wind...