Studies of Nature, Volume 1J. Mawman, 1809 - Natural history |
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Page xvii
... Navigators of the North and South Seas ; of the ancient deviation of the Sun from the Ecliptic , from Egyptian Traditions , Chinese Annals , and even from the Grecian My- thology ; of the total fusion of the polar ices , and of the ...
... Navigators of the North and South Seas ; of the ancient deviation of the Sun from the Ecliptic , from Egyptian Traditions , Chinese Annals , and even from the Grecian My- thology ; of the total fusion of the polar ices , and of the ...
Page xxx
... Navigators of the North , who have always seen the elevation of the Sun above the Horizon greater , the nearer that they approached to the Poles . It is impossible to ascribe these optical effects to the simple laws of the refraction of ...
... Navigators of the North , who have always seen the elevation of the Sun above the Horizon greater , the nearer that they approached to the Poles . It is impossible to ascribe these optical effects to the simple laws of the refraction of ...
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... Navigators , who had been accustomed to see them come from the South along the coasts of Europe . This Current , formed by the fusion of most of the ices of the North of America , of Europe , and of Asia , which at that season present a ...
... Navigators , who had been accustomed to see them come from the South along the coasts of Europe . This Current , formed by the fusion of most of the ices of the North of America , of Europe , and of Asia , which at that season present a ...
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... Navigators . I shall support the principles of my Theory by well - au- thenticated facts , supplied by Navigators of the highest credit . Hear what Dampier says of the Currents of the Ocean , in his Treatise of the Winds , pages 386 and ...
... Navigators . I shall support the principles of my Theory by well - au- thenticated facts , supplied by Navigators of the highest credit . Hear what Dampier says of the Currents of the Ocean , in his Treatise of the Winds , pages 386 and ...
Page xlvi
... Navigators go on the suppo sition that in this channel there is but one perpetual Cur- rent , which in our Hemisphere always runs from South to North . Into this mistake they have been led by the course of the tides , which in fact ...
... Navigators go on the suppo sition that in this channel there is but one perpetual Cur- rent , which in our Hemisphere always runs from South to North . Into this mistake they have been led by the course of the tides , which in fact ...
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Page 45 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
Page 161 - God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged ; the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained ; and the waters returned from off the earth continually : and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
Page 168 - When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it, And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, And said, "Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Page 168 - Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? Or who laid the corner-stone thereof, when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Page 169 - Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days ; and caused the day-spring to know his place, that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it? It is turned as clay to the seal ; and they stand as a garment.
Page 169 - Have the gates of death been opened unto thee ? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death ? Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth ? declare if thou knowest it all.
Page 169 - Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all. Where is the way where light dwelleth ? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof, that thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?
Page 124 - The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; Even the waters forgotten of the foot; They are dried up, they are gone away from men.
Page 168 - Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
Page 161 - While the earth remaineth, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.