 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1837 - 464 pages
...be raised at one edge, and then suddenly brought down again to the floor ; the air under it, being by this means propelled, will pass along, till it...vapour may be conceived to raise the earth in a wave, is it passes along between the strata, which it may easily separate in a horizontal direction, there... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1840 - 514 pages
...be raised at one edge, and then suddenly brought down again to the floor ; the air under it, being by this means propelled, will pass along, till it...opposite side, raising the cloth in a wave all the wav as it goes. In like manner, a large quantity of vapour may be conceived to raise the earth in a... | |
 | Association of American Geologists and Naturalists - 1843 - 602 pages
...to be raised at one edge, and then suddenly brought down again to the floor; the air under it being by this means propelled, will pass along, till it...way as it goes. In like manner, a large quantity of vapor may be conceived to raise the earth in a wave, as it passes along between the strata, which it... | |
 | Association of American Geologists and Naturalists - 1843 - 624 pages
...suddenly brought down again to the floor; the air under it being by this means propelled, will pass alone, till it escapes at the opposite side, raising the...way as it goes. In like manner, a large quantity of vapor may be conceived to raise the earth in a wave, as it passes along between the strata, which it... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1854 - 870 pages
...be raised at one edge, and then suddenly brought down again to the floor ; the air under it, being by this means propelled, will pass along till it escapes...way as it goes. In like manner, a large quantity of vapor may be conceived to raise the earth in a wave, as it passes along between the strata, which it... | |
 | United States Naval Astronomical Expedition, 1849-1852, James Melville Gilliss - 1855 - 616 pages
...to be raised at one edge, and then suddenly brought down again to the floor, the air under it, being by this means propelled, will pass along till it escapes...way as it goes, In like manner a large quantity of vapor may be conceived to raise the earth in a wave as it passes along between the strata, which it... | |
 | 1864 - 848 pages
...and suddenly brought down again — the air under it by this means propelled, will pass along until it escapes at the opposite side, raising the cloth in a wave all the way as it goes." This paper, though vitiated throughout by this leading fallacy as to the nature of the Earthquake wave,... | |
 | James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1864 - 876 pages
...and suddenly brought down again — the air under it by this moans propelled, will pass along until it escapes at the opposite side, raising the cloth in a wave all the way it goes." This paper though vitiated throughout by this leading fallacy as to the nature of the Earthquake... | |
 | William Barton Rogers - 1884 - 880 pages
...to be raised at one edge, and then suddenly brought down again to the floor ; the air under it being by this means propelled, will pass along, till it...way as it goes. In like manner, a large quantity of vapor may be conceived to raise the earth in a wave, as it passes along between the strata, which it... | |
 | William Barton Rogers - 1884 - 878 pages
...to be raised at one edge, and then suddenly brought down again to tho floor ; the air under it being by this means propelled, will pass along, till it...the opposite side, raising the cloth in a wave all tho way as it goes. In like manner, a large quantity of vapor may be conceived to raise the earth in... | |
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Suppose a large cloth, or carpet (spread upon a floor) to be raised at one edge, and then suddenly brought down again to the floor, the air under it being by this means propelled, will pass along, till it escapes at the opposite side, raising the cloth... 
