The Gallery of Nature; a Pictorial and Descriptive Tour Through Creation, Illustrative of the Wonders of Astronmy, Physical Geography, and Geology |
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... atmosphere . The ingredients that enter into their composition` have never been discovered in it , and the air has been analysed at the sea level and on the tops of high mountains . Even supposing that to have been the case , the ...
... atmosphere . The ingredients that enter into their composition` have never been discovered in it , and the air has been analysed at the sea level and on the tops of high mountains . Even supposing that to have been the case , the ...
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... atmosphere is illuminated by small electric explosions , like phosphorescent gleams , confined to a single group of vapours . From this period the breeze shifts at intervals , and for several hours , to the west and south - west ...
... atmosphere is illuminated by small electric explosions , like phosphorescent gleams , confined to a single group of vapours . From this period the breeze shifts at intervals , and for several hours , to the west and south - west ...
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... atmosphere , the greater is the quantity of heat abstracted from it , the surrounding fluid becoming more rare . Hence the perpetual snow , and the piles of glaciers , that crown the summits of mountains , at whose base the orange and ...
... atmosphere , the greater is the quantity of heat abstracted from it , the surrounding fluid becoming more rare . Hence the perpetual snow , and the piles of glaciers , that crown the summits of mountains , at whose base the orange and ...
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Illustrated TitleAstronomy | 14 |
Sycne near Alexandria | 89 |
Translation of the Earth in space | 159 |
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