The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and Instructive Articles on Scientific Subjects, Том 2James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas Robert Hardwicke, 1863 |
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... feet , and was discovered by probing the moss . The trunk , with a small portion of one of the larger limbs , was with great labour and difficulty dragged from its miry bed . The contents of the portion recovered contained 545 cubic feet ...
... feet , and was discovered by probing the moss . The trunk , with a small portion of one of the larger limbs , was with great labour and difficulty dragged from its miry bed . The contents of the portion recovered contained 545 cubic feet ...
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... feet in circumference , presenting the follow- ing picture to us as it did to Spenser : - There grew an aged tree on the green , A goodly oak some time had it been , With arms full long , and largely displayed , But of their leaves they ...
... feet in circumference , presenting the follow- ing picture to us as it did to Spenser : - There grew an aged tree on the green , A goodly oak some time had it been , With arms full long , and largely displayed , But of their leaves they ...
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... feet from the ground , and the nearer the ground the more numerous the galls . Young trees which have not attained a greater height than that I have indi- cated , suffer so much , that many of them can scarcely make headway against ...
... feet from the ground , and the nearer the ground the more numerous the galls . Young trees which have not attained a greater height than that I have indi- cated , suffer so much , that many of them can scarcely make headway against ...
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... feet , and holding out to him every inducement that her charms can afford . On the one hand , we find nought but smoke and arid deso- lation ; and , if some unsuspecting plant , some blade of grass or tender floweret , should venture to ...
... feet , and holding out to him every inducement that her charms can afford . On the one hand , we find nought but smoke and arid deso- lation ; and , if some unsuspecting plant , some blade of grass or tender floweret , should venture to ...
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... feet , and its width barely five ; and at the entrance we found several heaps of the auriferous quartz . Entering the tunnel , we observed that the superincumbent rock and earth were supported by props and joists of wood ; and , after ...
... feet , and its width barely five ; and at the entrance we found several heaps of the auriferous quartz . Entering the tunnel , we observed that the superincumbent rock and earth were supported by props and joists of wood ; and , after ...
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The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining ..., Том 12 Повний перегляд - 1873 |
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Сторінка 393 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Сторінка 343 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of my flesh stood up...
Сторінка 392 - Authors of the highest eminence seem to be fully satisfied with the view that each species has been independently created. To my mind it accords better with what we know of the laws impressed on matter by the Creator, that the production and extinction of the past and present inhabitants of the world should have been due to secondary causes, like those determining the birth and death of the individual.
Сторінка 350 - And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he overlaid it with pure gold; and...
Сторінка 392 - I believe that animals are descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number.
Сторінка 21 - As nitrous oxide in its extensive operation appears capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably be used with advantage during surgical operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place.
Сторінка 496 - That, for instance, in acquiring the sensation of redness, our eyes are affected four hundred and eighty-two millions of millions of times ; of yellowness, five hundred and forty-two millions of millions of times ; and of violet, seven hundred and seven millions of millions of times per second...
Сторінка 348 - Trees having this character of wood are rare, and do not exist in the proportion of one to a hundred. The serpentine direction of the fibre, which renders them difficult to split and to work, produces, in the hands of a skilful mechanic, the most beautiful effects of light and shade. These effects are rendered more striking, if, after smoothing the surface of the wood with a double-ironed plane, it is rubbed with a little sulphuric acid, and afterwards anointed with linseed oil.
Сторінка 259 - Ag. fusipes to pickle, in clusters under them ; Puffballs, which some of our friends have not inaptly compared to sweet-bread for the rich delicacy of their unassisted flavour ; Hydna as good as oysters, which they somewhat resemble in taste ; Agaricus deliciosus, reminding us of tender lamb-kidneys ; the beautiful yellow Chantarelle, that kalon kagathon of diet, growing by the bushel...
Сторінка 544 - Stopped the horses to clear a way, whilst I advanced a few yards on to the beach, and was gratified and delighted to behold the water of the Indian Ocean in Van Diemen's Gulf, before the party with the horses knew anything of its proximity. Thring, who rode in advance of me, called out "The Sea!