 | 1867 - 826 pages
...eruptions in different portionsof the dark partof the new moon. He says the appearances resembled a Email piece of burning charcoal, when it is covered by a very thin coat of white ashes, and all the adjacent parts of the volcanic mountain seemed to be faintly illuminated by the eruption,... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Educational sociology - 1850 - 586 pages
...hence the shining or burning matter must be above three miles in diameter. The appearance resembles a small piece of burning charcoal when it is covered by a very thin coat of white ashes, and it has a degree of brightness about as strong as that with which such a coal would be seen to glow... | |
 | Richard Adams Locke, Joseph Nicolas Nicollet - Great Moon Hoax - 1852 - 156 pages
...hence the shining or burning matter must be above three miles in diameter. The appearance resembles a small piece of burning charcoal when it is covered by a very thin coat of white ashes, and it has a degree of brightness about as strong as that with which such a coal would be seen to glow... | |
 | Josiah Crampton - 1853 - 140 pages
...hence the shining or burning matter must be above three miles in diameter. The appearance resembles a small piece of burning charcoal, when it is covered by a very thin coat of white ashes ; and it has a degree of brightness about as strong as that with which such a coal would be seen to... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1857 - 878 pages
...hence the shining or burning matter must be above three miles in diameter. The appearance resembles a small piece of burning charcoal when it is covered by a very thin coat of white ashes, and it has a degree of brightness about as strong as that with which such a coal would be seen to glow... | |
 | John Platts - Curiosities and wonders - 1876 - 986 pages
...them; nor did I perceive any similar phenomena last lunation, though I then viewed the same places with the same instrument. " The appearance of what I have called the actual fire, or ernption of a volcano, exactly resembled a small piece of burning charcoal, when it is covered by a... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1881 - 806 pages
...diameter of the volcano is twice that of Jupiter's satellite III. 231 The appearance of the actual fire exactly resembled a small piece of burning charcoal when it is covered with a very thin coat of white ashes. All the adjacent parts of the volcanic mountain seemed to be... | |
 | Edward Singleton Holden, Charles Sheldon Hastings - Astronomy - 1881 - 132 pages
...diameter of the volcano is twice that of Jupiter's satellite III. 231 The appearance of the actual fire exactly resembled a small piece of burning charcoal when it is covered with a very thin coat of white ashes. All the adjacent parts of the volcanic mountain seemed to be... | |
 | University of Iowa - Philology - 1921 - 876 pages
...state of going to break out .... The 3d shows an actual eruption of fire, or luminous matter. . . . "The appearance of what I have called the actual fire...it had a degree of brightness, about as strong as Poe's Unpublished Notes Works, vol. 16, p. 353 "Apr. 19, 1787, Dr. Herschel discovered 3 volcanoes... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1881 - 800 pages
...diameter of the volcano is twice that of Jupiter's satellite III. 231 The appearance of the actual fire exactly resembled a small piece of burning charcoal when it is covered with a very thin coat of white ashes. All the adjacent parts of the volcanic mountain seemed to be... | |
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... a degree of brightness about as strong as that with which such a coal would be seen to glow in faint daylight. 
