 Carolina, and was most violent there.* As to the reason of this, I can only give you my conjectures. Suppose a great tract of country, land and sea, to wit, Florida and the Bay of Mexico, to have clear weather for several days, and to be heated by the...  Maryland Weather Service - Pagina 324di Maryland. Weather Service - 1899Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | 1822 - 448 pagine
...windward. Thus the last October storm, which with you was on the 8th, began on the 7th in Virginia and N. Carolina, and was most violent there. As to the reason...Suppose the country north-eastward, as Pennsylvania, New-England, Nova-Scotia, Newfoundland, fac. to be at the same time covered with clouds, and its air... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1838 - 632 pagine
...violent there than farther to windward. Thus the last October storm, which with you was on the 8th, begun on the 7th in Virginia and North Carolina, and was...Suppose the country northeastward, as Pennsylvania, New Eng* Professor Bache, of the University of Pennsylvania, has shown, that the eclipse of the moon, here... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 640 pagine
...violent there than farther to windward. Thus the last October storm, which with you was on the 8th, begun on the 7th in Virginia and North Carolina, and was...with clouds, and its air chilled and condensed. The rarefied air being lighter must rise, and the denser air next to it will press into its place ; that... | |
 | James Parton - 1864 - 668 pagine
...in violence as they go. Franklin's conjectural explanation of this fact is refined and ingenious : " Suppose a great tract of country, land and sea, to...with clouds, and its air chilled and condensed. The rarefied air being lighter must rise, and the denser air next to it will press into its place ; that... | |
 | James Parton - 1865 - 672 pagine
...in violence as they go. Franklin's conjectural explanation of this fact is refined and ingenious : " Suppose a great tract of country, land and sea, to wit, Florida and the !!ay of Mexico, to have clear weather for several days, and to be heated by the sun, and its air thereby... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1882 - 652 pagine
...give you my conjectures. Suppose a great tract of country, land and sea, to wit, Florida and the Bav of Mexico, to have clear weather for several days,...with clouds, and its air chilled and condensed. The rarefied air being lighter must rise, and the denser air next to it will press into its place ; that... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - 1899 - 554 pagine
...scientific writing for its clearness, convincingness, and happy use of comparison. " Suppose," he assumed, " a great tract of country, land and sea, to wit, Florida...with clouds, and its air chilled and condensed. The rarefied air being lighter must rise, and the denser air next to it will press into its place ; that... | |
 | 1899 - 1010 pagine
...scientific writing for its clearness, convincingness, and happy use of comparison. Suppose [he wrote] a great tract of country. land and sea, to wit, Florida and the Bay uf Mexico, to have clear weather for several day?, and to be heated by the sun, and its air thereby... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1913 - 580 pagine
...northeast storms. Now he looked round for analogies, and then settled upon the following explanation : Suppose a great tract of country, land and sea, to...exceedingly rarefied. Suppose the country Northeastward, as TOL. IT. — II Pennsylvania, New England, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, to be at the same time covered... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2006 - 317 pagine
...Windward. Thus the last October Storm, which with you was on the 8th. began on the 7th in Virginia and N Carolina, and was most violent there. As to the Reason...heated by the Sun and its Air thereby exceedingly rarified; Suppose the Country North Eastward, as Pensilvania, New England, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland,... | |
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