Annals of Philosophy, Volume 22Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1823 - Agriculture |
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... surface , give the water under them impulses that create an agitation , extending much beyond them . This , which is here designated lateral agitation , to dis- tinguish it from the surf , acts in and near harbours through the whole ...
... surface , give the water under them impulses that create an agitation , extending much beyond them . This , which is here designated lateral agitation , to dis- tinguish it from the surf , acts in and near harbours through the whole ...
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... surface of this shaft was 77 ° . This increase of temperature at the surface is to be attributed to the immense quantity of warm water sent from distant parts of the other mines to this shaft to be drawn out ; and although it falls ...
... surface of this shaft was 77 ° . This increase of temperature at the surface is to be attributed to the immense quantity of warm water sent from distant parts of the other mines to this shaft to be drawn out ; and although it falls ...
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... surface of a piece of sandstone which he found in the inn at Idre , where this sandstone is very frequent in the country around . It seemed to belong to the stem of a fernlike plant , such as are frequently found in the shale of the ...
... surface of a piece of sandstone which he found in the inn at Idre , where this sandstone is very frequent in the country around . It seemed to belong to the stem of a fernlike plant , such as are frequently found in the shale of the ...
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... surface as all the rest together ; which seems to be again in direct proportion to the greater basin in which it was formed , which is the Baltic . The transition formation is perfectly isolated , the nearest rocks of granite being at a ...
... surface as all the rest together ; which seems to be again in direct proportion to the greater basin in which it was formed , which is the Baltic . The transition formation is perfectly isolated , the nearest rocks of granite being at a ...
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... surface of the wick will be perceived during several seconds , brighter in proportion to the size of the flame before being extinguished ; hence it is most obvious with a long wick , provided no spark be left on it . This combustion ...
... surface of the wick will be perceived during several seconds , brighter in proportion to the size of the flame before being extinguished ; hence it is most obvious with a long wick , provided no spark be left on it . This combustion ...
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Page 346 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Page 376 - If now a mixture of two volumes of hydrogen and one volume of oxygen is introduced into...
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Page 468 - ... fracture and a vitreous lustre. These results were nearly uniform, in various trials ; and every thing seems to indicate that were the diamond a good conductor, it would be melted by the deflagrator ; and were it incombustible, a globule would be obtained by the compound blow-pipe.
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Page 348 - God made the earth and the heavens, and every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew : for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till, the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.