Climate: An Inquiry Into the Causes of Its Differences, and Into Its Influence on Vegetable Life : Comprising the Substance of Four Lectures Delivered Before the Natural History Society, at the Museum, Torquay, in February, 1863, Opseg 2John Henry and James Parker, 1863 - Broj stranica: 144 |
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... fact be regarded as a store - house of heat , which it dispenses to the air passing over its surface , thus rendering it impossible that the latter should ever attain the same extreme degree of cold which it acquires on a continent ...
... fact be regarded as a store - house of heat , which it dispenses to the air passing over its surface , thus rendering it impossible that the latter should ever attain the same extreme degree of cold which it acquires on a continent ...
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... fact , that the inhabitants of our former seas , and the tenants of whatever dry land might have then existed , whether be- longing to the animal or to the vegetable creation , repre- sent more nearly the fauna and flora of tropical ...
... fact , that the inhabitants of our former seas , and the tenants of whatever dry land might have then existed , whether be- longing to the animal or to the vegetable creation , repre- sent more nearly the fauna and flora of tropical ...
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... fact , that the air of mountains is cooler and fresher than that of the plains below , and that every addition to the height above the level of the sea brings with it a corresponding reduction in the temperature of the place itself ...
... fact , that the air of mountains is cooler and fresher than that of the plains below , and that every addition to the height above the level of the sea brings with it a corresponding reduction in the temperature of the place itself ...
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... fact for which he vouches , that he saw on the slopes of the Alps , on ascending through a region of clouds , a multitude of these vesicles , which he compares to the soap - bubbles blown by children from the mouth of a tobacco - pipe ...
... fact for which he vouches , that he saw on the slopes of the Alps , on ascending through a region of clouds , a multitude of these vesicles , which he compares to the soap - bubbles blown by children from the mouth of a tobacco - pipe ...
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... fact of which navigators are so well aware , that they are in the habit of foreboding , by a fall in the thermometer , that shallow water is at hand . Nor is this the only way in which hills contribute to the formation of clouds and ...
... fact of which navigators are so well aware , that they are in the habit of foreboding , by a fall in the thermometer , that shallow water is at hand . Nor is this the only way in which hills contribute to the formation of clouds and ...
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