 | Mary Somerville - 1834 - 666 pagine
...villages in the morning, bore in the evening a complete resemblance to a beautiful lake ; the vapour, which played the part of water, ascending nearly half...distinctly reflected. I had not been long contemplating the phenomenon, before a sudden storm came on and dropped a curtain of clouds over the scene.' An occurrence... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1834 - 390 pagine
...resemblance to a beautiful lake ; the vapor, which played the part of water, ascending nearly halfway up the sides of the vale, and on its bright surface,...distinctly reflected. I had not been long contemplating the phenomenon, before a sudden storm came on and dropped a curtain of clouds over the scene.' An occurrence... | |
 | Light - 1838 - 298 pagine
...villages in the morning, bore in the evening a complete resemblance to a beautiful lake ; the vapour, which played the part of water, ascending nearly half...distinctly reflected. I had not been long contemplating the phenomenon, before a sudden storm came on and dropped a curtain of clouds over the scene." Another... | |
 | 1839 - 1032 pagine
...resemblance to a beautiful lake. The vapour, which played the part of water, ascending nearly half-way up the sides of the vale, and on its bright surface trees and rocks being distinctly reflected.' In the horizontal or lateral reflections the mirage presents the reflected image sideways. Thus, on... | |
 | 1839 - 534 pagine
...resemblance to a beautiful lake. The vapour, which played the part of water, ascending nearly half-way up the sides of the vale, and on its bright surface trees and rocks being distinctly reflected.' In the horizontal or lateral reflections the mirage presents the reflected image sideways. Thus, on... | |
 | Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - 1840 - 444 pagine
...resemblance to a beautiful lake ; the vapour, which played the part of water, ascending nearly half.way up the sides of the vale, and on its bright surface...distinctly reflected. I had not been long contemplating the phenomenon, before a sudden storm came on and dropped a curtain of clouds over the scene." Another... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1846 - 496 pagine
...152 EXTRAORDINARY REFLECTION. SEcT. XVIII. Mundy in his Journal of a Tour in India probably arises from this cause. A deep precipitous valley below us,...on and dropped a curtain of clouds over the scene." An occurrence which happened on the 18th of November, 1804, was probably produced by reflection. Dr.... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1846 - 496 pagine
...152 EXTRAORDINARY REFLECTION. SECT. XVIII. Mundy in his Journal of a Tour in India probably arises from this cause. A deep precipitous valley below us,...on and dropped a curtain of clouds over the scene." An occurrence which happened on the 18th of November, 1804, was probably produced by reflection. Dr.... | |
 | 1873 - 744 pagine
...resemblance to a beautiful lake. The vapour, which played the part of water, ascended nearly half-way up the sides of the vale, and on its bright surface trees and rocks were distinctly reflected." In the horizontal or lateral reflections the mirage presents the image... | |
 | Mrs. Lincoln Phelps - 1848 - 330 pagine
...Supposed cause of the mirage. Appearance wit Dewed by Dr. Bu/:hau at Brighton. NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. ing nearly half way up the sides of the vale, and on its bright surface trees and rocks were distinctly reflected." Some writers attribute the mirage chiefly to partial, or total reflection... | |
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India probably arises from this cause. " A deep precipitous valley below us, at the bottom of which I had seen one or two miserable villages in the morning, bore in the evening a complete resemblance to a beautiful lake ; the vapour which played the part... 
