 | Tom Telescope - Science - 1808 - 188 pages
...vapours, which are thinly spread through the atmosphere, above the clouds, where they ferment, and, taking fire, the explosion of one portion kindles the next,...another, till all the vapour is set on fire, the streams whereof seem to converge towards the zenith of the spectator, or that point of the heavens which is... | |
 | William Duane - Education - 1811 - 378 pages
...in the heavens, and which the vulgar call northern lights or streamers ? sion of one portion kindled the next, and the flashes succeed one another till all the vapour is set on fire, the streams whereof seem to converge towards the zenith of the spectator, or that point of the heavens which is... | |
 | William Barre - 1813 - 94 pages
...suj vapours, thinly spread through' the" atmosphere above th^ clouds, where they ferment, aftd taking fire, the explosion of one portion kindles the next,...another, till all the vapour is set on fire. ' The food on wfoch, t^fljifhdtpr lives. He claims some pity; but more, much more, The man of benighted mind... | |
 | Mrs. Jamieson (Frances Thurtle) - Costume - 1820 - 538 pages
...sulphureous vapours, thinly spread through the atmosphere above the clouds, where they ferment, and taking fire, the explosion of one portion kindles the next,...another, till all the vapour is set on fire, the streams whereof seem to converge towards the zenjth of the spectator, or that point of the heavens which is... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Geography - 1821 - 256 pages
...vapours thinly spread through the atmosphere and above the clouds, where they ferment, and, taking fire, the explosion of one portion kindles the next, and the flashes succeed one another till alt the vapour is set on fire. But we know sufficient of the electric fluid's powers and operations... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - Natural history - 1821 - 448 pages
...the clouds, where they ferment, and taking fire, the explosion of one portion kindles the next, aud the flashes succeed one another till all the vapour is set on fire. But we know sufficient of the electric fluid's powers and operations not to believe it the cause of... | |
 | sir Richard Phillips - 1834 - 248 pages
...vapours thinly spread through the atmosphere and above the clouds, where they ferment, and, taking fire, the explosion of one portion kindles the next,...succeed one another till all the vapour is set on fire. But we know sufficient of the electric fluid's powers and operations not to believe it the cause of... | |
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... above the clouds, where they ferment, and, taking fire, the explosion of one portion kindles the next, and the flashes succeed one another till all the vapour is set on fire. 