 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - Natural history - 1852 - 544 pages
...moment when it passes the meridian. This circumstance is known to the people of every nation situated beyond the tropics, or in the southern hemisphere....hour of the night, in different seasons, the Cross is erect or inclined. It is a timepiece which advances very regularly nearly four minutes a-day, and... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - Natural history - 1852 - 536 pages
...moment when it passes the meridian. This circumstance is known to the people of every nation situated beyond the tropics, or in the southern hemisphere....hour of the night, in different seasons, the Cross is erect or inclined. It is a timepiece which advances very regularly nearly four minutes a-day, and... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1853 - 666 pages
...form of which recalls the sign of the faith planted by their ancestors in the deserts of the New World It has been observed at what hour of the night, in...the Cross of the South is erect or inclined. It is a time -piece that advances very regularly near four minutes a day, and no other group of stars exhibits... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - Poetry - 1855 - 620 pages
...form of which recals the sign of Ihe faith planted by their ancestors in the deserts of the New World It has been observed at what hour of the night, in different season*, the Cross of the South is erect or inclined. It ua time-piece that advances very regularly... | |
 | James Mursell Phillippo - Cuba - 1857 - 506 pages
...follows the constellation is almost vertical at the moment when it passes the meridian. This circumstance is known to every nation that lives beyond the tropics, or in the southern hemisphere. It is known at what hour of the night, in different seasons, the southern cross is erect or inclined.... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1859 - 528 pages
...moment when it passes the meridian. This circumstance is known to the people of every nation situated beyond the tropics, or in the southern hemisphere....hour of the night, in different seasons, the Cross is erect or inclined. It is a timepiece which advances very regularly nearly four minutes a day, and... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 pages
...constellation is almost perpendicular at the moment when it passes the meridian. Tliis circumstance is known to every nation that lives beyond the tropics or in the southern hemisphere. It is known at what hoar of the night, in different seasons, the Southern Cross is erect, or inclined.... | |
 | Graduated series - 1861 - 504 pages
...moment when it passes the meridian. This circumstance is known to the people of every nation situated beyond the tropics, or in the southern hemisphere....hour of the night, in different seasons, the Cross is erect or inclined. It is a timepiece which advances very regularly nearly four minutes a day, and... | |
 | Peter Parley (pseud.) - 1862 - 326 pages
...perpendicular at the moment when it passes the meridian. This circumstance is known to every nation that lives in the southern hemisphere. It has been observed at...Cross of the south is erect or inclined ; it is a time-piece, that advances very regularly nearly four minutes a day, and no other group of stars exhibits... | |
 | George Harley Kirk - 1863 - 240 pages
...perpendicular at the moment when it passes the meridian. This circumstance is known to every nation that lies beyond the tropics, or in the southern hemisphere. It has been observed at what hour of night in the different seasons the Cross of the South is erect or inclined. It is a time-piece that... | |
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It has been observed at what hour of the night, in different seasons, the Cross of the South is erect or inclined. It is a time-piece that advances very regularly near four minutes a day, and no other group of stars exhibits, to the naked eye, an observation... 
