The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the Arts, Volum 32A. and C. Black, 1842 |
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Side 285 - I have the honour to acquaint you, for the information of my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that at 5 o'clock PM on the 6th of August last, in latitude 24° 44...
Side 20 - Yet the total absence of rain soon destroys the verdure of the fields ; and gives to the whole landscape the aspect of drought and barrenness. The only green thing which remains is the foliage of the scattered fruit-trees, and occasional vineyards and fields of millet.
Side 19 - In ordinary seasons, from the cessation of the showers in spring until their commencement in October or November, rain never falls, and the sky is usually serene.
Side 16 - Neby-Samwil, situated on a lofty ridge beyond the great Wady, at the distance of two hours.
Side 20 - In autumn the whole land has become dry and parched ; the cisterns are nearly empty ; the few streams and fountains fail ; and all nature, physical and animal, looks forward with longing to the return of the rainy season. Mists and clouds begin to make their appearance, and showers occasionally to fall ; the husbandman sows his seed ; and the thirsty earth is soon drenched with an abundance of rain.
Side 91 - They appear to me only resolvable, on the supposition that crystalline or polar forces acted on the whole mass simultaneously, in given directions, and with adequate power.
Side 22 - Mr. Murray, if you insist upon your bitter Osher simile, why shut your eyes to the palpable analogy suggested? Naturalists assert that the Solanum, or apple of Sodom, contains in its normal state neither dust nor ashes ; unless it is punctured by an insect, (the Tenthredo), which converts the whole of the inside into dust, leaving nothing but the rind entire, without any loss of color. Human life is as fair and tempting as the fruit of 'Ain Jidy,' till stung and poisoned by the Tenthredo of sin.
Side 23 - Jordan : it is thorny, with small taper leaves, and its fruit is exactly like the little Egyptian lemon both in size and colour. ' Before it is ripe, it is filled with a corrosive and saline juice : when dried, it yields a blackish seed, which may be compared to ashes, and which in taste resembles bitter pepper.
Side 397 - Dr. Barry employed for the most part such as had been preserved in spirit; and, besides using extremely minute portions, he very often avoided adding any covering whatever, the weight of thin mica itself being sufficient to rupture or to flatten this delicate substance, and thus entirely prevent its structure from being seen.
Side 25 - It is indeed filled chiefly with air, like a bladder, which gives it the round form ; while in the centre a small slender pod runs through it from the stem, and is connected by thin filaments with the rind. The pod contains a small quantity of fine silk with seeds, precisely like the pod of the silk- weed, though very much smaller.