... of some acres in extent. As the spot had never been flooded in the memory of man, no one thought of removing the pony until the wooden bridges having ...
... of shrubs, trees, and soil and the space so lately filled with a wilderness of verdure was now one vast and powerful red-coloured river. On ...
... the water inwards, and that they would be crushed to atoms, he rummaged the garret and fortunately found a bit of board and a few nails and standing ...
... consisting of small roundish and well-defined masses, in close horizontal arrangement. (Figure 3.). [Picture: Various forms of clouds]. The ...
... countless as they're fair Scatter'd immensely wide from east to west, The beauteous semblance of a flock at rest: These, to the raptur'd mind, aloud ...
... than the cloud, the latter will continue to descend till it touches the ground, where it forms a mist. If the vapour has been condensed rapidly and ...
... out to see what was the matter, received a severe cut, and now wears a bandage. The storm was said to have been of limited extent: we certainly saw, ...
... wheel-work and indices, which register upon a dial plate the quantity of rain fallen. Whatever form of rain-gauge is adopted, it must be placed in ...
... faded away. Even where brightest, it was scarcely sufficient to remind one of the fresh turf and budding flowers during the spring of other countries. ...
... to form a rainbow, is a great number of transparent bodies capable of forming a great number of prismatic spectra from the light of the sun.. The ...
... to say, that, as I stood toward the western extremity of the parish of Stoke Newington, it seemed to take its rise from the west of Hampstead, ...
... matter, with a particular colouring matter similar to indigo, produced, probably, by the decomposition of vegetables in harvest while the change of colour ...
... one kind only. They fell in a straight line on the road from my house to the tank which is about forty or fifty yards distant. Those which fell on the ...
... nickel, silica, magnesia, sulphur, and chrome. Another enormous mass of meteoric iron was found in South America, about the year 1788. It lay in a vast ...
... which contain either combustible or elastic matter.. This chapter ought not to be concluded without a short notice of that remarkable rain known ...
... the following amusing lines a large number of the natural prognostics of rain. They are said to have been addressed to a lady, who asked the Doctor if ...
... village flew to the tops of their wigwams, or to the bank of the river, from whence the steamer was in full view, and ploughing along to their utter ...
... down, not in cataracts and water-spouts, but in the form of drops of various sizes. If the rain-clouds threw down, at once and suddenly, all the ...
... excessive height, ever and anon peeping above airy clouds with its snowy head, till we had climbed to the inn at Radicofany, built by Ferdinand the greate ...
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