The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the Arts, 11. köideA. and C. Black, 1860 |
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Page 26
... length revealed the source of the unknown language of Eten . Among the Chinese lately introduced to Peru to occupy the place of the emancipated negro , it is ob- servable , that natives of different remote provinces of that great ...
... length revealed the source of the unknown language of Eten . Among the Chinese lately introduced to Peru to occupy the place of the emancipated negro , it is ob- servable , that natives of different remote provinces of that great ...
Page 40
... length , and formerly extended right across the valley ; but the impetuous mountain torrent has hewn a channel , and has levelled the ground for a breadth of 100 yards . This glacier , extending from Grisedale Tarn to the terminal ...
... length , and formerly extended right across the valley ; but the impetuous mountain torrent has hewn a channel , and has levelled the ground for a breadth of 100 yards . This glacier , extending from Grisedale Tarn to the terminal ...
Page 42
... length , rises about two feet above the water at its centre . On this is perched a natural monument of the transporting agency of ice in the form of a boulder , nearly round , and ( judging at a distance of 100 yards ) about four feet ...
... length , rises about two feet above the water at its centre . On this is perched a natural monument of the transporting agency of ice in the form of a boulder , nearly round , and ( judging at a distance of 100 yards ) about four feet ...
Page 74
... length , semi - transparent , and of the same colour and consistency as a zoophyte , such as an Antennaria or Plumularia . If put alive into a tank containing a bunch of these zoophytes , it fixes itself among them by its hind legs ...
... length , semi - transparent , and of the same colour and consistency as a zoophyte , such as an Antennaria or Plumularia . If put alive into a tank containing a bunch of these zoophytes , it fixes itself among them by its hind legs ...
Page 95
... length . " At 8.20 , the inner luminous curve had vanished , and the eastern end of the arch was replaced for a considerable dis- tance by a broad mass of light , giving origin to several streamers . ( See fig . 2 , Plate III . ) It now ...
... length . " At 8.20 , the inner luminous curve had vanished , and the eastern end of the arch was replaced for a considerable dis- tance by a broad mass of light , giving origin to several streamers . ( See fig . 2 , Plate III . ) It now ...
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