 | William Scoresby - Arctic regions - 1820 - 674 pages
...it generally appears as effulgent as with the same elevation in Britain. The force of the sun's rays is sometimes remarkable. Where they fall upon the...the black exterior of a ship, the pitch on one side occasionally becomes fluid, while ice is rapidly generated on the other ; or while a thermometer, placed... | |
 | Great Britain - 1820 - 866 pages
...frt &c. it was declared, when cooked, to 1* tk most exquisite morsel that he had era 234 235 able. Where they fall upon the snow-clad surface of the ice or land, they are, in a ;rcat measure, reflected, without producing any material elevation of temperature ; but when they impinge... | |
 | John Frederic Daniell - Meteorology - 1823 - 528 pages
...and the weather very fine and calm. TABLE XI. Experiments upon Solar Radiation, at Melville Island, Here it is seen that the sun had power to raise a...the black exterior of a ship, the pitch on one side occasionally becomes fluid, while ice is rapidly generated at the other ; or, while a thermometer placed... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1832 - 634 pages
...the sea. Captain Scoresby, in his account of the arctic regions, observes, that when the sun's rays ' fall upon the snow-clad surface of the ice or land,...the black exterior of a ship, the pitch on one side occasionally becomes fluid, while ice is rapidly generated at the other*.' Now field ice is almost... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1837 - 568 pages
...the sea. Captain Scorcsby, in his account of the arctic regions, observes, that when the sun's rays " fall upon the snowclad surface of the ice or land, they are in a great measure reflected, with out producing any material elevation of temperature ; but when they impinge on the black exterior... | |
 | Medicine - 1848 - 910 pages
...: — " Captain Scoresby, in his account of the arctic regions, observes, that when the sun's rays fall upon the snow-clad surface of the ice or land,...elevation of temperature ; but when they impinge on the exterior of a ship, the pitch on one side occasionally becomes * Dr. Chalmers, of South Carolina, many... | |
 | William Scoresby - Arctic regions - 1799 - 402 pages
...it generally appears as effulgent as with the same elevation in Britain. The force of the sun's rays is sometimes remarkable. Where they fall upon the...the black exterior of a ship, the pitch on one side occasionally becomes fluid, while ice is rapidly generated on the other ; or, while a thermometer,... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1854 - 870 pages
...the sea. Captain Scoresby, in his account of the arctic regions, observes, that when the sun's rays " fall upon the snow-clad surface of the ice or land,...they impinge on the black exterior of a ship, the piteh on one side occasionally becomes fluid while ice is rapidly generated at the other."* Now field... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - Agricultural chemistry - 1860 - 360 pages
...substances, and of opposite colours, has been observed in the Arctic regions. Where the sun's rays fall upon the snow-clad surface of the ice, or land,...the black exterior of a ship, the pitch on one side occasionally becomes fluid, while ice is rapidly generated on the other.i 9 654. How is heat distributed... | |
 | Charles Leeson Prince - Climatic changes - 1871 - 270 pages
...regions are several remarks upon the intensity of the sun's rays. He says, " The force of the sun's rays is sometimes remarkable where they fall upon the snow-clad surface of the ice or land, for they are, in a great measure, reflected without producing any material elevation of temperature;... | |
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Scoresby, in his account of the arctic regions, observes that when the sun's rays "fall upon the snow-clad surface of the ice or land, they are in a great measure reflected, without producing any material elevation of temperature; but when they impinge... 
