 | 1834 - 560 sider
...the velocity with which they pass through the atmosphere, and are precipitated with great violence on the earth. The fall of meteoric stones is much more...is inhabited, it may be presumed that numbers fall iu the ocean, or on the uninhabited part of the land, unseen by man. They are sometimes of great magnitude... | |
 | 1834 - 476 sider
...the velocity with which they pass through the atmosphere, and are precipitated with great violence on the earth. The fall of meteoric stones is much more...is inhabited, it may be presumed that numbers fall in the ocean or on the uninhabited part of the land, unseen by man. They are sometimes of great magnitude;... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1834 - 478 sider
...the velocity with which they pass through the atmosphere, and are precipitated with great violence on the earth. The fall of meteoric stones is much more...is inhabited, it may be presumed that numbers fall in the ocean or on the uninhabited part of the land, unseen by man. They are sometimes of great magnitude;... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1834 - 390 sider
...the velocity with which they pass through the atmosphere, and are precipitated with great violence on the earth. The fall of meteoric stones is much more...is inhabited, it may be presumed that numbers fall in the ocean or on the uninhabited part of the land, unseen by man. They are sometimes of great magnitude... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1834 - 484 sider
...the velocity with which they pass through the atmosphere, and are precipitated with great violence on the earth. The fall of meteoric stones is much more...is inhabited, it may be presumed that numbers fall in the ocean or on the uninhabited part of the land, unseen by man. They are sometimes of great magnitude... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - 1834 - 698 sider
...composed of nickel, iron, magnetic pyrites, and olivine. (Archiv Kaslner., xvii. 228.) •J- " The full of meteoric stones is much more frequent than is generally...hardly a year passes without some instances occurring," &c. (Somermlle, p. 401.) J Injustice to him, as well as to my own reasonings, I must here quote a passage... | |
 | 1840 - 460 sider
...velocity with which they pass through the atmosphere, and are precipitated with great violence upon the earth. The fall of meteoric stones is much more...is inhabited, it may be presumed that numbers fall in the ocean, or on the uninhabited part of the land, unseen by man. They are sometimes of great magnitude... | |
 | T H. Howe - 1842 - 458 sider
...the velocity with which they pass through the atmosphere, and are precipitated with great violence on the earth. The fall of meteoric stones is much more...be presumed that numbers fall into the ocean, or on the uninhabited laud, unseen by man. They are sometimes of great magnitude ; the volume of several... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 344 sider
...the velocity with which they pass through the atmosphere, and are precipitated with great violence on the Earth. The fall of meteoric stones is much more...is inhabited, it may be presumed that numbers fall in the ocean, or on the unoccupied part of the land, unseen by man. They are sometimes of great magnitude... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 370 sider
...the velocity with which they pass through the atmosphere, and are precipitated with great violence on the Earth. The fall of meteoric stones is much more...is inhabited, it may be presumed that numbers fall in the ocean, or on the unoccupied part of the land, unseen by man. They are sometimes of great magnitude... | |
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... the earth. The fall of meteoric stones is much more frequent than is generally believed. Hardly a year passes without some instances occurring ; and, if it be considered that only a small part of the earth is inhabited, it may be presumed that numbers... 
