The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the Arts, 13. köideA. and C. Black, 1861 |
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... periods of quiescence ; the narrators of the phenomena of eruptions have too frequently been terror - stricken , ignorant or supersti- tious peasants , and all eruptions have been observed only from a greater or less distance - one ...
... periods of quiescence ; the narrators of the phenomena of eruptions have too frequently been terror - stricken , ignorant or supersti- tious peasants , and all eruptions have been observed only from a greater or less distance - one ...
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... period , there have not been other eruptions , of which we have simply no * Longest interval . † Shortest interval . Most important eruption . records preserved . Again , between the eleventh and twelfth 32 Dr Lauder Lindsay on the ...
... period , there have not been other eruptions , of which we have simply no * Longest interval . † Shortest interval . Most important eruption . records preserved . Again , between the eleventh and twelfth 32 Dr Lauder Lindsay on the ...
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... period dreadful exundations of hot water were poured forth on the low country ; and the masses of ice , clay , and solid rock , that they hurled into the sea , were so great that it was filled to the distance of more than fifteen miles ...
... period dreadful exundations of hot water were poured forth on the low country ; and the masses of ice , clay , and solid rock , that they hurled into the sea , were so great that it was filled to the distance of more than fifteen miles ...
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... period , were attri- buted to the effluvia arising from the putrid animal matter . " † In January 1803 , the vast mass of snow , which usually covers Cotopaxi , in South America , was suddenly dissolved in a night . " In Quito , on the ...
... period , were attri- buted to the effluvia arising from the putrid animal matter . " † In January 1803 , the vast mass of snow , which usually covers Cotopaxi , in South America , was suddenly dissolved in a night . " In Quito , on the ...
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... period of the inquiry , Dr Black * suggested that a gauze screen should be tried instead of the brown paper . Accordingly , Wilson says , " I fastened with packthread a piece of open gauze to a hoop of 8 inches in diameter , and an inch ...
... period of the inquiry , Dr Black * suggested that a gauze screen should be tried instead of the brown paper . Accordingly , Wilson says , " I fastened with packthread a piece of open gauze to a hoop of 8 inches in diameter , and an inch ...
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