 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 sun, and its air thereby exceedingly rarefied. Suppose the country...  The American Journal of Science and Arts - Page 3651822Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1838 - 632 pages
...Thus the last October storm, which with you was on the 8th, begun on the 7th in Virginia and North Carolina, and was most violent there.* As to the reason...Suppose the country northeastward, as Pennsylvania, New Eng* Professor Bache, of the University of Pennsylvania, has shown, that the eclipse of the moon,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 640 pages
...Thus the last October storm, which with you was on the 8th, begun on the 7th in Virginia and North Carolina, and was most violent there.* As to the reason...Suppose the country northeastward, as Pennsylvania, New England, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland, to be at the same time covered with clouds, and its air... | |
 | James Parton - 1864 - 668 pages
...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...Suppose the country northeastward, as Pennsylvania, New England, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland, to be at the same time covered with clouds, and its air... | |
 | James Parton - 1865 - 672 pages
...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 pages
...Thus the last October storm, which with you was on the 8th, begun on the 7th in Virginia and North Carolina, and was most violent there.* As to the reason...of country, land and sea, to wit, Florida and the Bav of Mexico, to have clear weather for several days, and to be heated by the sun, and its air thereby... | |
 | Maryland. Weather Service - 1899 - 734 pages
...Thus the last October storm which with you was on the eighth, began on the 7th in Virginia and North Carolina and was most violent there. As to the reason...Suppose the country northeastward, as Pennsylvania, New England, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland to be at the same time covered with clouds, and its air chilled... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - 1899 - 554 pages
...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...Suppose the country northeastward, as Pennsylvania, New England, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland, to be at the same time covered with clouds, and its air... | |
 | 1899 - 1010 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...observ'd the Accounts in the Newspapers from N England, N York, Maryland, Virginia and South Carolina, and I find it to be a constant Fact, that N East Storms...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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