 | Thomas Thomson - 1813 - 514 pages
...one or two boards, though they generally scorch the persons in their way, seldom kill them; but when the air has proceeded lazily for several days through...magazine of fire-damp is ignited in the wastes, then the whoie mine is instantly illuminated with the most brilliant lightning — the expanded fluid drives... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 540 pages
...though they generally scorch the persons in their wav, seldom kill them ; hut when the air has proceedid lazily for several days through a colliery, and an...ignited in the wastes, then the whole mine is instantly illuunnated with the most brilliant lightning — the expanded fluid drives hefore it a roaring whirlwind... | |
 | Rev. Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - 1818 - 566 pages
...in their way, seldom kill them ; but when the air ha* proceeded lazily for several daya through :i colliery, and an extensive magazine of fire-damp is...then the whole mine is instantly illuminated with the roost brilliant lightning — the expanded fluid drives before it a roaring uluil-.ua.! of flaming... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1821 - 538 pages
...one or two boards, though they generally scorch the persons in their way, seldom kill them ; but when the air has proceeded lazily for several days through...a roaring whirlwind of flaming air, which tears up everything in its progress, scorching some of the miners to a cinder, burying others under enormous... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - 1831 - 598 pages
...of the mine into a magazine of 'fire-damp. On the approach of a candle, it is in an instant kindled: the expanded fluid drives before it a roaring whirlwind...progress, scorching some of the miners to a cinder, and burying others under enormous ruins shaken from the roof; when thundering to the shafts, it converts... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - 1831 - 582 pages
...of the mine into a magazine of fire-damp. On the approach of a candle, it is in an instant kindled: the expanded fluid drives before it a roaring whirlwind...progress, scorching some of the miners to a cinder, and burying others under enormous ruins shaken from the roof; when thundering to the shafts, it converts... | |
 | 1832 - 602 pages
...atmospheric air. These generally scorch the persons in their way, though they seldom kill them. When the air has proceeded lazily for several days through...and an extensive magazine of fire-damp is ignited, then .the whole mine is instantly illuminated with the most brilliant lightning — the expanded fluid... | |
 | John Murray - 1833 - 40 pages
...extensive magazine of fire-damp becomes ignited in the wastes, then the whole mine is instantly filled with the most brilliant lightning ; the expanded fluid drives before it a roaring whirlwind of flame, which tears up every thing in its progress, scorching some of the miners to a cinder, and burying... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 596 pages
...described by Dr. Paris : — " On the approach of a candle, it is in an instant kindled : the expanding fluid drives before it a roaring whirlwind of flaming...progress, scorching some of the miners to a cinder, and burying others under enormous ruins shaken from the roof; when thundering to the shafts, it converts... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 592 pages
...described by Dr. Paris : — " On the approach of a candle, it is in an instant kindled : the expanding fluid drives before it a roaring whirlwind of flaming...thing in its progress, scorching some of the miners tu a cinder, and burying others under enormous ruins shaken from the roof; when thundering to the shafts,... | |
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... when the air has proceeded lazily for several days through a colliery, and an extensive magazine of fire-damp is ignited in the wastes, then the whole mine is instantly illuminated with the most brilliant lightning — the expanded fluid drives before... 
