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... perhaps yet stalking through the western wilderness ; but if he is no more , let us carefully gather his remains , and even try to find a whole skeleton of this giant , to whom the elephant was but a calft . The great herds or buffaloes ...
... perhaps yet stalking through the western wilderness ; but if he is no more , let us carefully gather his remains , and even try to find a whole skeleton of this giant , to whom the elephant was but a calft . The great herds or buffaloes ...
Side 3
... perhaps in all space ; fo that there is a magnetical North and South of the universe as well as of this globe , and that if it were poffible for a man to fly from star to ftar , he might govern his courfe by the compass . That it was by ...
... perhaps in all space ; fo that there is a magnetical North and South of the universe as well as of this globe , and that if it were poffible for a man to fly from star to ftar , he might govern his courfe by the compass . That it was by ...
Side 4
... perhaps fafe from any future change of its axis . But we are still subject to the acci- dents on the surface which are occafioned by a wave in the internal ponderous fluid ; and fuch a wave is producible by the fudden violent explofion ...
... perhaps fafe from any future change of its axis . But we are still subject to the acci- dents on the surface which are occafioned by a wave in the internal ponderous fluid ; and fuch a wave is producible by the fudden violent explofion ...
Side 8
... Perhaps when this globe was first formed and its origi- nal particles took their place at certain distances from the centre in proportion to their greater or lefs gravity , the fluid fire attracted towards that centre might in great ...
... Perhaps when this globe was first formed and its origi- nal particles took their place at certain distances from the centre in proportion to their greater or lefs gravity , the fluid fire attracted towards that centre might in great ...
Side 11
... perhaps through all fyftems , fo that if men could make a voyage in the ftarry regions , a compafs might be of use ? And may not fuch univerfal magnetism , with its uniform direction , be ferviceable in keeping the diurnal revolution of ...
... perhaps through all fyftems , fo that if men could make a voyage in the ftarry regions , a compafs might be of use ? And may not fuch univerfal magnetism , with its uniform direction , be ferviceable in keeping the diurnal revolution of ...
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Side 11 - Our ancient correspondence used to have something philosophical in it. As you are now more free from public cares, and I expect to be so in a few months, why may we not resume that kind of correspondence ? Our much regretted friend Winthrop once made me the compliment, that I was good at starting game for philosophers : let me try if I can start a little for you.
Side 3 - ... specific gravity with themselves, where they would rest; while other matter, mixed with the lighter air would descend, and the two meeting would form the shell of the first earth, leaving the upper atmosphere nearly clear.
Side 299 - The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar; Eye Nature's walks, shoot Folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to man.
Side 65 - Springs of the purest water abound in their neighbourhood. They are, when fully grown, as tall as the white and black oaks, and from two to three feet in diameter.* They put forth a beautiful white blossom in the Spring before they show a single leaf.
Side 12 - ... poles have been changed? Is not the supposition that the poles have been changed the easiest way of accounting for the deluge by getting rid of the old difficulty how to dispose of its waters after it was over?
Side 2 - ... be an agent sufficiently strong for that purpose, when acting between the incumbent earth and the fluid on which it rests. If one might indulge imagination, in supposing how such a globe was formed, I should conceive, that, all the elements in separate particles being originally mixed in confusion, and occupying a great space, they would (as soon as...
Side 65 - Its afhes afford a great quantity of pot afh exceeded by few or perhaps by none of the trees that grow in the woods of the United States. The tree is fuppofed to arrive at its full growth in the woods in twenty years. It is not injured by tapping; on the contrary, the oftencr it is tapped, the more fyrup is obtained from it. In this refpeft it follows the law of animal fecretion.
Side 9 - China, if they would make fheets, fuppofe of four and an half ells long and one and an half ell wide, they have two large vats, each five ells long and two...
Side 342 - I have had no reference to his political character, or to his reputation for general science, and for literature. My business was with his knowledge of natural history. In the various departments of this science, but especially in botany and in zoology, the information of this gentleman is equalled by that of few persons in the United-States.
Side 325 - ... of the bellows, and the other end was thrown into the well, reaching ^within one foot of the bottom. At this time the well 'was...