The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the Arts, Band 55A. and C. Black, 1853 |
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Seite 122 - Seen from the heights, the lamps in the canoe glare like fiery eyeballs ; and the passengers sitting there, so hushed and motionless, look like shadows. The scene is so strangely funereal and spectral, that it seems as if the Greeks must have witnessed it before they imagined Charon conveying ghosts to the dim regions of Pluto.
Seite 121 - ... away on the right and left into thick darkness. Every one has heard of the dome of the Mosque of St Sophia, of St Peter's, and St Paul's ; they are never spoken of but in terms of admiration as the chief works of architecture, and among the noblest and most stupendous examples of what men can can do when aided by science ; and yet when compared with the dome of this temple, they sink into comparative insignificance.
Seite 187 - ... to have continued erect for many years in the Carboniferous period, when the sea happened to gain on any tract of submerged land. Submergence under salt water may have been caused either by a local diminution in the discharge of a river in one of its many mouths, or more probably by subsidence, as in the case of the erect columns of the Temple of Serapis, near Naples, to which serpulae and other marine bodies are still found adhering.
Seite 121 - Hall is a steep precipice, over which you can look down, by aid of blazing missiles, upon a broad, black sheet of water, eighty feet below, called the Dead Sea. This is an awfully impressive place, the sights and sounds of which do not easily pass from memory. He who has seen it will have it vividly brought before him by Alfieri's description of Filippo: "Only a transient word or act gives us a short and dubious glimmer, that reveals to us the abysses of his being ; dark, lurid, and terrific, as...
Seite 186 - Modiolse with scales and teeth of fish, these being evidently deposits of brackish or salt water origin. The lecturer exhibited a joint of the stem of a fresh water reed (Arundinaria macrosperma) covered with barnacles, which he gathered at the extremity of the delta of the Mississippi or the Balize. He saw a cane-brake (as it is called in the country) of these tall reeds killed by salt water, and extending over several acres, the sea having advanced over a space where the discharge of fresh water...
Seite 187 - Calcutta is about fifteen feet annually, that between the Cape of Good Hope and Calcutta averages in October and November nearly, three quarters of an inch daily ; betwixt 10° and 20° in the Bay of Bengal it was found to exceed an inch daily. Supposing this to be double the average throughout the year, we shall, instead of three, have eighteen feet of evaporation annually...
Seite 256 - ANIMALS TO PLANTS. IT has been long asserted by Bory de St. Vincent and others, that there exist in nature organized bodies which are animal at one period of their lives, and vegetable at another ! This, if true, would for ever put an end to the possibility of distinguishing the two kingdoms when they shall each have arrived at their lowest forms.
Seite 185 - The gardeners have been in the habit of bringing toads to these beds to destroy the insects ; these have continued amongst the warm damp straw all summer. It is after these beds have remained three or four months that the young ones have been noticed. Toads would have to travel nearly half a mile to reach this garden from the brook or lake, and also to mount a steep hill, besides taking the opportunity of coming through the door. Toads so small are not seen in any other part of the gardens.
Seite 181 - ... was ascertained by Mr Logan to be 14,570 feet. The middle part of this vast series of strata having a thickness of 1400 feet, abounds in fossil forests of erect trees, together with root-beds and thin seams of coal. These coal-bearing strata were examined in detail by Mr J.
Seite 333 - ... stratum in which the irregularity existed, and the second commencing from the point where the regular diminution of temperature was resumed. It was then found that the rate of diminution was nearly uniform within each section, but that it was somewhat greater in the lower than in the upper sections. On taking a mean of both sections for each series, giving each section a value corresponding to its extent, it is found that the number of feet of height corresponding to a fall of one degree Fahrenheit...