The Philsophy of the weather and a guide to its Changes1856 |
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Africa ascending Atlantic attraction barometer Bay of Bengal belt of rains blow calm changes character cirro-stratus cirrus coast cold commenced condensation connection continued counter-trade course cumulus currents curve doubtless drought earth earthquakes east easterly eastern eastward electricity elevation Europe evaporation extended fact fair weather fall gale Gulf Gulf of Mexico Gulf Stream heat hemisphere hurricanes increase Indian Ocean influence irregular Islands lateral latitude light magnetic intensity mean Mexico miles moisture monsoons months moon mountains N. E. trades N. W. wind northern northern hemisphere observations occur Pacific passing peculiar period phenomena polar pole portion precipitation produced rainless rainy belt Redfield rise scud scud running seen showers side snow sometimes South America southerly southern spots storm cloud stratus stratus cloud summer surface atmosphere temperature tendency theory thermometer tion tropical violent warm West Indies western winter
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Seite 344 - THE hollow winds begin to blow ; The clouds look black, the glass is low ; The soot falls down ; the spaniels sleep ; And spiders from their cobwebs peep.
Seite 344 - Loud quack the ducks, the peacocks cry, The distant hills are looking nigh. How restless are the snorting swine ! The busy flies disturb the kine ; Low o'er the grass the swallow wings, The cricket, too, how sharp he sings ! Puss on the hearth, with velvet paws...
Seite 344 - Hark ! how the chairs and tables crack ; Old Betty's joints are on the rack ; Loud quack the ducks, the peacocks cry ; The distant hills are seeming nigh. How restless are the snorting swine— The busy flies disturb the kine ; Low o'er the grass the swallow wings ; The cricket, too, how sharp he sings 1 Puss on the hearth, with velvet paws, Sits, wiping o'er her whiskered jaws.
Seite 64 - ... in which mosquitoes, hippobosces, and a host of other stinging insects, burrow and nestle. Such is the miserable existence of these poor animals when the heat of the sun has absorbed the waters from the surface of the earth. When, after a long drought, the genial season of rain arrives, the scene suddenly changes.
Seite 343 - Mark, with attentive eye, the rapid sun, — The varying moon that rolls its monthly round ; So shalt thou count, not vainly, on the morn ; So the bland aspect of the tranquil night Will ne'er beguile thee with insidious calm. When Luna first her scatter'd fires recalls, If with blunt horn she holds the dusky air, Seamen and swains predict th
Seite 376 - Can you explain this omen? Phys. A rainbow can only occur when the clouds containing or depositing the rain are opposite to the sun — and in the evening the rainbow is in the east, and in the morning in the west; and as our heavy rains, in this climate, are usually brought by the westerly...
Seite 194 - All the observations are given in detail in the tables accompanying the paper. 1'hey are also given in the graphical form in the curves. The ascents took place on August 17, August 26, October 21, and November 10, 1852, from the Vauxhall Gardens, with Mr. C. Green's large balloon. The principal results of the observations may be briefly stated as follows : — Each of the four series of observations shows, that the progress of the temperature is not regular at all heights, but that at a certain height...
Seite 64 - Paspalum, and a variety of grasses. Excited by the power of light, the herbaceous ^Mimosa unfolds its dormant, drooping leaves, hailing, as it were, the rising sun in chorus with the matin song of the birds and the opening flowers of aquatics. Horses and oxen, buoyant with life and enjoyment, roam over and crop the plains. The luxuriant grass hides the beautifully spotted Jaguar, who, lurking in safe concealment, and carefully measuring the extent of the leap, darts, like the Asiatic tiger, with...
Seite 226 - ... between the magnetic and calorific influences of the sun. It is not a little remarkable that this periodical magnetic variation is found to be identical in period and in epochs of maxima and minima with the periodical variation in the frequency and magnitude of the solar spots which Mr. Schwabe has established by twenty-six years of unremitting labor. From...
Seite 63 - Everywhere the drought announces death, yet everywhere the thirsting wanderer is deluded by the phantom of a moving, undulating, watery surface, created by the deceptive play of the reflected rays of light (the mirage). A narrow stratum separates the ground from the distant palm-trees, which seem to hover aloft, owing to the contact of currents of air having different degrees of heat, and therefore of density. Shrouded in dark clouds of dust, and tortured by hunger and burning thirst, oxen and horses...