Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe, Volume 5H.G. Bohn, 1858 |
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Page 89
... Lake Superior , between the southern extremity of Hud- 94 In those cases in which individual treatises of General Sabine have not been specially referred to in these notes , the passages have been taken from manuscript communications ...
... Lake Superior , between the southern extremity of Hud- 94 In those cases in which individual treatises of General Sabine have not been specially referred to in these notes , the passages have been taken from manuscript communications ...
Page 90
... lake of Winipeg . We owe this determination to the important land expedition , undertaken in the year 1843 , by Captain Lefroy , of the Royal Artillery , and formerly director of the Magnetic Observatory at St. Helena . " The mean of ...
... lake of Winipeg . We owe this determination to the important land expedition , undertaken in the year 1843 , by Captain Lefroy , of the Royal Artillery , and formerly director of the Magnetic Observatory at St. Helena . " The mean of ...
Page 97
... Lake ( 1.307 ) . In the same manner Gay- Lussac and myself found that the intensity was 1.344 at the Hospice of Mont Cenis , whilst at the foot of the same mountain , at Lans le Bourg , it was 1.323 , and at Turin 1.336 . The greatest ...
... Lake ( 1.307 ) . In the same manner Gay- Lussac and myself found that the intensity was 1.344 at the Hospice of Mont Cenis , whilst at the foot of the same mountain , at Lans le Bourg , it was 1.323 , and at Turin 1.336 . The greatest ...
Page 118
... Lake Baikal , on the 8th of March , 1828 , there was no disturbance in the declination 48 and its periodic changes . Declination . We have already referred to the historical facts of the earliest recognition of those phenomena , which ...
... Lake Baikal , on the 8th of March , 1828 , there was no disturbance in the declination 48 and its periodic changes . Declination . We have already referred to the historical facts of the earliest recognition of those phenomena , which ...
Page 146
... Lake Erie . We may conjecture that it has advanced very nearly half a degree farther west since 1840 . The Australo - Asiatic curve of no variation ( if according to Erman we consider the part which rises suddenly from Kasan to ...
... Lake Erie . We may conjecture that it has advanced very nearly half a degree farther west since 1840 . The Australo - Asiatic curve of no variation ( if according to Erman we consider the part which rises suddenly from Kasan to ...
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