The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the Arts, Bind 18A. and C. Black, 1835 |
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Side 28 - Indies, and the storms of this coast, when prevailing in the same latitudes. There is reason to believe, that the great circuits of wind, of which the trade winds form an integral part, are nearly uniform in all...
Side 376 - The ground wood is next baked into small flat cakes, with water, rendered slightly mucilaginous by the addition of some decoction of linseed, mallow stalks and leaves, limetree bark, or any other such substance.
Side 26 - Atlantic, meets the storms in their course, and thereby shortens the period of their recurrence, and will encounter more gales, in an equal number of days, than if stationary, or sailing in a different direction. 5. On the other hand, vessels, while sailing to the eastward, or north-eastward, or in the course of the storms, will lengthen the periods between their occurrence, and consequently experience them less frequently than vessels sailing on a different course. The difference of exposure which...
Side 178 - The discovery of coprolites containing very perfect scales of fish which had been eaten, permits us to recognise the organized beings which formed the food of many ancient fish ; even the intestines, and, in some fossil fish of the chalk, the whole stomach are preserved, with its different membranes.
Side 377 - His family party, he says, ate it in the form of gruels or soup, dumplings and pancakes, all made with as little of any other ingredient as possible ; and found them palatable and quite wholesome. Are we, then, instead of looking upon a human being stretched upon a bare plank as the picture of extreme want and wretchedness, to regard him as reposing in the lap of abundance, and consider, henceforth, the common phrase
Side 223 - Nile in the same class, for, according to him, it disappears for the space of three days' journey before its entrance into the Cesarian Mauritania, and also to the extent of twenty days' journey upon the frontiers 'of Ethiopia. Come we now, however, to examples that are nearer to ourselves, better determined, and more known. The Guadiana loses itself in a flat country in the midst of an immense meadow. Here we have the explanation of the fact, that, when we are speaking with admiration of some superb...
Side 362 - ... were continually piercing it. The temporary loss of sight is occasioned by the impossibility of opening the eyelids for a single moment, the smallest ray of light being absolutely insupportable. The only relief is a poultice of snow, but as that melts away, the intolerable tortures return.
Side 376 - ... sack, which they only half fill, and beating the sack with a stick, or treading it with the feet in a rivulet. The whole is then to be completely dried, either in the sun, or by fire, and repeatedly ground in a Hour-mill.
Side 378 - Glasgow 202,426, and in other towns 60,620, there was one such person for every 169-J^, showing a degree of health in the population, of Glasgow nearly equal to that of the whole of Scotland. The following results have reference to Glasgow and its suburbs, which partake of a mercantile and manufacturing population, or something between Liverpool and Manchester, the town population being 198,518, and the rural 3908. In 1831 the population was found to be 202,426, the burials 5185, and the rate of...
Side 139 - Raven destroys numberless insects, grubs, and worms ; that be kills mice, moles, and rats, whenever he can find them ; that he will seize the weasel, the young opossum, and the skunk ; that, with the perseverance of a cat, he will watch the burrows of foxes, and pounce on the cubs...