The frozen stream; or, An account of the nature ... dangers and uses of iceS.P.C.K., 1846 - 150 páginas |
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... summer would scarcely suffice to melt : the fish , and other tenants of the pool , would be destroyed ; the tem- perature of our climate would be materially altered , and the consequences would be very serious .. To make this subject ...
... summer would scarcely suffice to melt : the fish , and other tenants of the pool , would be destroyed ; the tem- perature of our climate would be materially altered , and the consequences would be very serious .. To make this subject ...
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... summer , floated on the surface during the winter , the ice acting like a cork to raise them up . This ice also raised the large stones to which the buoys were attached by chains , and occasioned much inconvenience by displacing these ...
... summer , floated on the surface during the winter , the ice acting like a cork to raise them up . This ice also raised the large stones to which the buoys were attached by chains , and occasioned much inconvenience by displacing these ...
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... summer , in a depth of thirty feet , floated to the surface , enveloped in ice to the thickness of two feet . An anchor which had rested only an hour at the bottom , became so encrusted with ice , that it required not more than half the ...
... summer , in a depth of thirty feet , floated to the surface , enveloped in ice to the thickness of two feet . An anchor which had rested only an hour at the bottom , became so encrusted with ice , that it required not more than half the ...
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... summer , would be almost useless to the farmer if it were not for winter frosts . land is ploughed up in furrows , and thus exposed to the influence of the frost , which changes the moisture into ice , and , in doing so , bursts the ...
... summer , would be almost useless to the farmer if it were not for winter frosts . land is ploughed up in furrows , and thus exposed to the influence of the frost , which changes the moisture into ice , and , in doing so , bursts the ...
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... summer in Canada , and the United States of America , is in some way alleviated by the liberal use of ice . It is seen in every form , and used with the greatest profusion , being brought to table floating in water - jugs , or placed in ...
... summer in Canada , and the United States of America , is in some way alleviated by the liberal use of ice . It is seen in every form , and used with the greatest profusion , being brought to table floating in water - jugs , or placed in ...
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appearance ascend asunder AURORA BOREALIS Banks beautiful beneath blocks boat bonspiel bottom breaking called canoe centre climate cold colour continued crevasses crystal danger deep depth distance edge effects of frost fall feet fields of ice filled floating masses foot Forbes formation of ground-ice formed freezing frost fairs frozen Glace glacier Greenland half inches heat height hole horses hundred ice-house ice-saw iceberg icy stream masses of ice melting Mer de Glace miles Mont Blanc Montanvert moraine motion mountains move musquitoes naphtha nearly Neva névé night noise Petersburgh pieces pounds weight produced rapid rills rising river rock rope round season seen sheet of ice ship shore side sink skate sledges slide snow snow line solid sometimes soon stone summer surface Switzerland temperature thaw thick thousand torrents traveller valleys vessels warmth waste WENHAM LAKE whole wind winter
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Página 80 - Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? — GOD! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, GOD!
Página 147 - He giveth snow like wool : He scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes. He casteth forth His ice like morsels : Who can stand before His cold? He sendeth out His word, and melteth them : He causeth His wind to blow, and the waters flow.
Página 148 - Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, and all judges of the earth: Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children: Let them praise the name of the Lord: for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven.
Página 80 - Ye ice-falls! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain— Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge! Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the Gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet?— God!
Página 7 - Let down the flood, and half dissolved by day, Rustles no more ; but to the sedgy bank Fast grows, or gathers round the pointed stone, A crystal pavement, by the breath of Heaven Cemented firm ; till, seized from shore to shore, The whole imprison'd river growls below.
Página 74 - To enrich thy walls : but thou didst hew the floods, And make thy marble of the glassy wave.
Página 65 - Branch'd out in many a long canal extends, From every province swarming, void of care, Batavia rushes forth ; and as they sweep, On sounding skates, a thousand different ways, In circling poise, swift as the winds, along, The then gay land is madden'd all to joy.
Página 7 - Flood, and half dissolved by Day, Rustles no more; but to the sedgy Bank Fast grows, or gathers round the pointed Stone — A crystal Pavement, by the Breath of Heaven Cemented firm; till, seized from Shore to Shore, The whole imprison'd River growls below.
Página 77 - ; this humour tooke so universally, that 'twas estimated the printer gain'd £5. a day, for printing a line onely, at sixpence a name, besides what he got by ballads, &c. Coaches plied from Westminster to the Temple, and from several other staires to and fro, as in the...
Página 135 - Blow hollow blustering from the south. Subdued, The frost resolves into a trickling thaw. Spotted the mountains shine ; loose sleet descends, And floods the country round.