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Side 13
... nearly 6,000 me- teors an hour . Wylam . - A very fine month , with a very even temperature . Mean height of barometer 30-181 . Mean temperature 42.07 , which is 0.8 ° above the average . Otterburn . - A most remarkable month . Moors ...
... nearly 6,000 me- teors an hour . Wylam . - A very fine month , with a very even temperature . Mean height of barometer 30-181 . Mean temperature 42.07 , which is 0.8 ° above the average . Otterburn . - A most remarkable month . Moors ...
Side 24
... nearly every tree was bare . A few miles inland the case was different . The two kinds of potatoes which were least diseased here were the Milky White , an early potato , and Paterson's Victoria amongst the late kinds . The Fluke was ...
... nearly every tree was bare . A few miles inland the case was different . The two kinds of potatoes which were least diseased here were the Milky White , an early potato , and Paterson's Victoria amongst the late kinds . The Fluke was ...
Side 33
... nearly twenty miles from east to west , and twelve miles from north to south , there can be no doubt left in any mind that the mighty forces of nature alone have been operative in producing them , and that the supposition of man's ...
... nearly twenty miles from east to west , and twelve miles from north to south , there can be no doubt left in any mind that the mighty forces of nature alone have been operative in producing them , and that the supposition of man's ...
Side 34
... nearly four hundred yards , narrowing as they ascend towards the Watling Street , in conformity to the irregu- lar triangular shape of the escarpment . The site is now covered with heather , and strewn with boulders and ancient slag ...
... nearly four hundred yards , narrowing as they ascend towards the Watling Street , in conformity to the irregu- lar triangular shape of the escarpment . The site is now covered with heather , and strewn with boulders and ancient slag ...
Side 35
... nearly at a right angle to each other . As these sin- gular terraces are exceedingly well defined , and may be taken as typical of all the rest in the district , I have made a more care- ful examination of this than of any of the other ...
... nearly at a right angle to each other . As these sin- gular terraces are exceedingly well defined , and may be taken as typical of all the rest in the district , I have made a more care- ful examination of this than of any of the other ...
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abundant Acklam Acklam Hall Allenheads Alston Angl antennæ Anthracosaurus appear April April 12 April 20 August average barometer Bees belong Birtley bone Brady Byrness Bywell Climaxodus Club cutting-margin Dahlb Darlington Days December dentine district ditto Durham enamel February Feet female fish fossil G. O. Sars gale Gateshead genus Gibside Greta Bridge Hall HALOS were seen Hancock Height of Guage inches long Janassa January John July June Kirby Labyrinthodont length Linn Long Benton lower lowest March margin mean height mean temperature Melitta Middlesbro Monog month nearly Newcastle Newsham North Shields North Sunderland Northumberland November observed occurred October Otterburn plates portion posterior Rain Inches rainfall reading remarkable ridges Rothbury Seaham Seaton Sluice September setæ side Smith snow South species specimens spines surface teeth terraces thermometer Thomas tooth transverse Tyne Tynemouth upper Wallington weather Whitley wind Wylam
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Side 3 - If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight ; But if it be dark with clouds and rain, Winter is gone, and will not come again.
Side 29 - We would strongly recommend any of our readers whose occupations lead them to attend to the " signs of the weather," and who, from hearing a particular weather adage often repeated, and from noticing themselves a few remarkable instances of its verification, have " begun to put faith in it," to commence keeping a note-book, and to set down without bias all the instances which occur to them of the recognized antecedent, and the occurrence or nonoccurrence of the expected consequent, not omitting also...
Side 49 - The entire destruction of the wood that formerly covered the mountains, and the utter neglect of the terraces which supported the soil upon steep declivities, have given full scope to the rains, which have left many tracts of bare rock, where formerly were vineyards and cornfields.
Side 3 - The shepherd would rather see the wolf enter his stable on Candlemas day than the sun ; 2. The badger peeps out of his hole on Candlemas day, and when he finds snow, walks abroad ; but if he sees the sun shining, he draws back into his hole.
Side 49 - Were these limestone ledges once more provided with walls, to prevent the soil being washed down into the valley by the rain floods, and were fresh soil carried up from the hollows, where it must lie fathoms deep, magnificent crops would very soon be produced. It is well known also how soon the moisture of the climate would be affected by the restoration of the orchards. And when we remember the small quantity...
Side 223 - A shower in July, when the corn begins to fill, Is worth a plough of oxen, and all belongs there till.
Side 218 - A May flood never did good. Look at your corn in May, and you'll come weeping away. Look at the same in June, and you'll come home in another tune.
Side 30 - ... would be in itself an improbability, and that therefore, to have any weight, the majority should be a very decided one, and that not only in itself, but in reference to the neutral instances. We are all involuntarily much more strongly impressed by the fulfilment than by the failure of a prediction, and it is only when thus placing ourselves face to face with fact and experience that we can fully divest ourselves of this bias.
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