The Gallery of Nature and Art; Or, a Tour Through Creation and Science, Volumen 3R. Wilks for C. Cradock & W. Joy, 1815 |
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... course of the rivers ; but this opinion appears contrary to all the known prin- ciple of hydrostatics . It was in opposition to these hypotheses , that our illustrious . countryman Halley contended for the process of evaporation , and ...
... course of the rivers ; but this opinion appears contrary to all the known prin- ciple of hydrostatics . It was in opposition to these hypotheses , that our illustrious . countryman Halley contended for the process of evaporation , and ...
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... course is gene- rally rapid and headlong ; but it is retarded in its journey by the continual friction against its banks , by the many obstacles it meets to divert its stream , and by the plane's generally becoming more level as it ...
... course is gene- rally rapid and headlong ; but it is retarded in its journey by the continual friction against its banks , by the many obstacles it meets to divert its stream , and by the plane's generally becoming more level as it ...
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... course , which is very often very extensive , should not meet with spongy soils to swal- low up its waters , or gulphs in which they are lost ; nevertheless , as there has been hitherto known but a small number of rivers whose waters ...
... course , which is very often very extensive , should not meet with spongy soils to swal- low up its waters , or gulphs in which they are lost ; nevertheless , as there has been hitherto known but a small number of rivers whose waters ...
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... course without any interruption , as appears by the history of the country ; very likely the mud , which had been collected together in several parts of its channel , might have occasioned the waters re- maining in others , and have ...
... course without any interruption , as appears by the history of the country ; very likely the mud , which had been collected together in several parts of its channel , might have occasioned the waters re- maining in others , and have ...
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... course ; this fact is , that in winter the greatest part of their betoirs become springs , which supply anew the river's channel with as much water as they had ab- sorbed from it during the summer . Now from whence can that water come ...
... course ; this fact is , that in winter the greatest part of their betoirs become springs , which supply anew the river's channel with as much water as they had ab- sorbed from it during the summer . Now from whence can that water come ...
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Página 33 - Thames ! the most loved of all the Ocean's sons, By his old sire, to his embraces runs, Hasting to pay his tribute to the sea, Like mortal life to meet eternity ; Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber, and their gravel gold * : His genuine and less guilty wealth t' explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore, O'er which he kindly spreads his spacious wing, And hatches plenty for th...
Página 243 - Arcadian plain. Pure stream ! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave ; No torrents stain thy limpid source ; No rocks impede thy dimpling course, That sweetly warbles o'er its bed, With white round...
Página 265 - ... half conceal and vary the figure of the little lake they command. From the shore, a low promontory pushes itself far into the water, and on it stands a white village, with the parish church rising in the midst of it.
Página 50 - Dares stretch her wing o'er this enormous mass Of rushing water ; scarce she dares attempt The sea-like Plata ; to whose dread expanse, Continuous depth, and wondrous length of course, Our floods are rills.
Página 34 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Página 47 - Cubagua; from thence he sailed to Spain. The vanity natural to travellers who visit regions unknown to the rest of mankind, and the art of an adventurer, solicitous to magnify his own merit, concurred in prompting him to mingle an extraordinary proportion of the marvellous in the narrative of his voyage. He pretended to have discovered nations so rich, that the roofs of their temples were covered with plates of gold; and described a republic of women so warlike and powerful, as to have extended their...
Página 265 - Not a single red tile, no flaring gentleman's house or garden walls, break in upon the repose of this little unsuspected paradise ; but all is peace, rusticity, and happy poverty in its neatest and most becoming attire.
Página 256 - ... which continued for near two miles more along the road, and the crowd (coming towards it) reached on as far as Appleby. On the ascent of the hill above Appleby, the thick hanging wood, and the long reaches of the Eden (rapid, clear, and full as ever,) winding below with views of the castle and town, gave much employment to the mirror ;f but the sun was wanting and the sky overcast.
Página 260 - ... foaming with fury. On one side a towering crag, that spired up to equal, if not overtop, the neighbouring cliffs (this lay all in shade and darkness) on the other hand a rounder broader projecting hill shagged with wood and illumined by the sun, which glanced sideways on the upper part of the cataract.
Página 243 - Pure stream, in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave; No torrents stain thy limpid source, No rocks impede thy dimpling course, That sweetly warbles o'er its bed, With white round polish'd pebbles spread; While, lightly poised, the scaly brood In myriads cleave thy crystal flood; The springing trout in speckled pride, The salmon, monarch of the tide; The ruthless pike, intent on war, The silver eel, and mottled par.