 | Richard Turner - Children's questions and answers - 1792 - 296 pages
...greater or lefs quantities, with moft other bodies. Now all rivers run into the fea, and carry fome fait with them ; but no rivers run out of it, nor is any water taken from it, but either by exhalation or evaporation. But chemifts have demonftrably proved, that no fait... | |
 | Jasper Adams, John Adams - 1793 - 358 pages
...greater or lefs uiantities, with mofl other bodies. Now all -nvjrs run into the fez, and carry fome fait with them : but no rivers run out of it, nor is any water taken from it, but either by exhalation or evaporation. But chymifts have deinonftrably proved, that no fait... | |
 | Mrs. Jamieson (Frances Thurtle) - Costume - 1820 - 538 pages
...mixed, in greater or less quantities, with most other bodies. Now all rivers run into the sea, and carty some salt with them; but no rivers run out of it, nor is any water taken from it, except by exhalation or evaporatioo. But chemists have dernonstrably proved, that no salt... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - Natural history - 1821 - 448 pages
...mixed, in greater or less quantities, with most otlier bodies. Now all rivers run into the sea, and carry some salt with them; but no rivers run out of it, nor is any water taken from it, except by exhalation or evaporation. But chemists have demonstrably proved, that no salt can... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - Industrial arts - 1829 - 654 pages
...mixed, in greater or less quantities, uith most other bodies. Now all rivers run into the sen, and carry some salt with them ; but no rivers run out of it, nor is any water taken from it, except by exhalation or evaporation. liât chemists have demonstrably proved, that no salt... | |
 | sir Richard Phillips - 1834 - 248 pages
...little brackish, the waters of all lakes and rivers are mild, sweet, and fit for human purposes. Illus- 1. Salt is one of the original principles in nature,...carry with them a sufficient quantity of salt to give to the whole body of waters of the deep, that saltness, which, with their motions and currents, preserves... | |
 | Richard Phillips (sir.) - 1851
...substances. All rivers that run into the sea carry some salt with them ; but no rivers run out of the sea, nor is any water taken out of it, except by exhalation...carry with them a sufficient quantity of salt to give to the whole body of waters of the deep that saltness which, with their motions and currents, preserves... | |
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All rivers run into the sea, and therefore carry some salt with them ; but no rivers run out of it, nor is any water taken out of it, except by exhalation and evaporation ; and no salt ascends in either of these ways ; it has consequently been inferred,... 