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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... principal primitive formations , there occur seven subordinate formations , interspersed through the second , third , and fourth formations ; and topaz rock , which lies over gneiss and under clay - slate , must be added to the list ...
... principal primitive formations , there occur seven subordinate formations , interspersed through the second , third , and fourth formations ; and topaz rock , which lies over gneiss and under clay - slate , must be added to the list ...
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... principal shocks ap- peared to consist in a sudden elevation of the ground to a considerable height , which was propagated somewhat like a wave , from west to east : besides this , the ground had also a horizontal motion backwards and ...
... principal shocks ap- peared to consist in a sudden elevation of the ground to a considerable height , which was propagated somewhat like a wave , from west to east : besides this , the ground had also a horizontal motion backwards and ...
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... principal street of Mauro . On the 26th of December , while we were ob- serving the progress of the torrent from a small wood of oaks ncar the Prince's Casino , we were suddenly surprised and alarmed by the motion of the ground we were ...
... principal street of Mauro . On the 26th of December , while we were ob- serving the progress of the torrent from a small wood of oaks ncar the Prince's Casino , we were suddenly surprised and alarmed by the motion of the ground we were ...
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... principal modes by which the production of cinders or ashes may be accounted for ; they may be thrown from the crater of a volcano during an eruption of lava , and in that case they consist of small pieces of scoria , pumice , & c . and ...
... principal modes by which the production of cinders or ashes may be accounted for ; they may be thrown from the crater of a volcano during an eruption of lava , and in that case they consist of small pieces of scoria , pumice , & c . and ...
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... principal plants , and indeed the principal contri- butors to the whole formation , are the ipomea or pes capra , and the salsola ; both are found in great abundance . The former appears to be in a soil exactly suited to it , and throws ...
... principal plants , and indeed the principal contri- butors to the whole formation , are the ipomea or pes capra , and the salsola ; both are found in great abundance . The former appears to be in a soil exactly suited to it , and throws ...
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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.