 | 1842 - 820 pages
...exhalations not dispersed by the wind nor rarefied by the sun, it then happens that in this vapor, as in a curtain extended along the channel to the height of about thirty palms and nearly down to the sea, the observer will behold the scene of the same objects not... | |
 | 1844 - 636 pages
...by the action of the wind and waves, or rarified by the sun, it then happens, that, in this vapor, as in a curtain extended along the channel to the height of above forty palms, and nearly down to the sea, the observer will behold the scene of the same objects... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...previously dispersed by the action of the wind and waves, or rarified by the sun, it then happens, that in this vapour, as in a curtain extended along the channel to the height of above forty palms, and nearly lown to the sea, the observer will behold the scene of the ame objects... | |
 | Popular encyclopedia - 1846 - 886 pages
...previously dispersed by the action of the wind and waves, or rarified by the sun, it then happens, that, in this vapour, as in a curtain extended along the channel to the height of above forty palms, and nearly down to the sea, the observer will behold the scene of the same objects... | |
 | Charles Foote Gower - Dwellings - 1847 - 208 pages
...previously dispersed hy the action of the wind or waves, or rarefied hy the sun, it then happens that in this vapour, as in a curtain extended along the channel, to the height of ahout four or five and twenty feet, and nearly down to the sea, the ohserver will hehold the scene... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
...previously dispersed by the action of the wind and waves, or rarefied by the sun, it then happens that, in this vapour, as in a curtain extended along the channel to the height of above forty palms, and nearly down to the sea, the observer will behold the scene of the same objects... | |
 | David Purdie Thomson - Meteorology - 1849 - 516 pages
...previously dispersed by the action of the wind and waves, or rarefied by the sun, it then happens, that in this vapour, as in a curtain extended along the channel to the height of about five-andtwenty feet, and nearly down to the sea, the observer will behold the scene of the same objects... | |
 | GEORGE RIPLEY - 1852 - 670 pages
...by the action of the wind and waves, or rarifiecl by the sun, it then happens, that in this vapor, as in a curtain extended along the channel to the height of above forty palms, and nearly down to the sea, the observer will behold the scene of the same objects... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1852 - 678 pages
...dispersed by the action of the wind and waves, or rarifiod by the sun, it then happens, that in this vapor, as in a curtain extended along the channel to the height of above forty palms, and nearly down t« the sea, the observer will behold the scene of the same objects... | |
 | Treasury - 1853 - 276 pages
...previously dispersed by the action of the wind and waves, or rarefied by the sun, it then happens that, in this vapour, as in a curtain extended along the channel, to the height of above forty palms, and nearly down to the sea, the observer will behold the scene of the same objects... | |
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... palms, and nearly down to the sea, the observer will behold the scene of the same objects not only reflected from the surface of the sea, but likewise in the air, though not so distinct or well defined as the former objects from the sea. 
