Physical Geography: By Mary Somerville ...Blanchard and Lea, 1854 - 558 Seiten |
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Physical Geography: By Mary Somerville ... - Primary Source Edition Mary Somerville Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2013 |
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Seite 215 - ... to be but little probability of our ships holding together much longer, so frequent and violent were the shocks they sustained. The loud crashing noise of the straining and working of the timbers and decks, as she was driven against some of the heavier pieces, which all the activity and exertions of our people could not prevent, was sufficient to fill the stoutest heart, that was not supported by trust in Him who controls all events...
Seite 215 - In the early part of the storm, the rudder of the Erebus was so much damaged as to be no longer of any use ; and about the same time I was informed by signal that the Terror's was completely destroyed, and nearly torn away from the stern-post.
Seite 64 - ... of wild and wonderful beauty. At midnight, when myriads of stars sparkle in the black sky, and the pure blue of the mountains looks deeper still below the pale white gleam of the earth and snow-light, the effect is of unparalleled...
Seite 274 - The mercury is sustained in the tube by the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of the fluid in the cup.
Seite 9 - Pharmacy in the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. Edited, with extensive Additions, by PROF. WILLIAM PROCTER, of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy.
Seite 307 - Suppose that the two extremities of a cloud highly charged with electricity hang down towards the earth ; they will repel the electricity from the earth's surface, if it be of the same kind with their own, and will attract the other kind ; and, if a discharge should suddenly take place at one end of the cloud, the equilibrium will instantly be restored by a flash at that point of the earth which is under the other. Though...
Seite 14 - There we read of the changes that have brought the rude mass to its present fair state, and of the myriads of beings that have appeared on this mortal stage, have fulfilled their destinies, and have been swept from existence to make way for new races, which in their turn have vanished from the scene till the creation of man completed the glorious work. Who shall define the periods of those mornings and evenings when God saw that his work was good ? And who shall declare the time allotted to the human...
Seite 215 - The storm gained its height at 2 PM, when the barometer stood at 28'40 inches, and after that time began to rise. Although we had been forced many miles deeper into the pack, we could not perceive that the swell had at all subsided, our ships still rolling and groaning amidst the heavy fragments of crushing bergs, over which the ocean rolled its mountainous waves, throwing huge 'masses one upon another, and then again burying them deep beneath its foaming waters, dashing and grinding them together...
Seite 215 - Soon after midnight our ships were involved in an ocean of rolling fragments of ice, hard as floating rocks of granite, which were dashed against them by the waves with so much violence that their masts quivered as if they should fall at every successive blow; and the destruction of the ships seemed inevitable from the tremendous shocks they received.
Seite 371 - ... 45° to 38°, almost rival in luxuriance those of the glowing intertropical regions. Stately trees of many kinds, with smooth and highly coloured barks, are loaded by parasitical monocotyledonous plants ; large and elegant ferns are numerous, and arborescent grasses entwine the trees into one entangled mass to the height of thirty or forty feet above the ground.