 | Sir Alexander Burnes - 1834 - 514 pages
...moonlight, a star is visible on the verge of the horizon at an elevation of but three or four degrees. There is also a never-ceasing display of the most...which dart like rockets in the sky : ten or twelve of these are sometimes seen in an hour, assuming almost every colour ; fiery red, blue, pale and faint.... | |
 | Sir Alexander Burnes - 1834 - 522 pages
...visible on the verge of the horizon at an elevation of but three or four degrees. and pheno- , ... . There is also a never-ceasing display of the most...which dart like rockets in the sky: ten or twelve of these are sometimes seen in an hour, assuming almost every colour; fiery red, blue, pale and faint.... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - 1845 - 540 pages
...and an admirable clearness in the sky. At night, the stars have uncommon lustre, and the milky way shines gloriously in the firmament. There is also...dart like rockets in the sky: ten or twelve of them arc sometimes seen in an hour, assuming every colour; fiery, red, blue, pale and faint. It is a noble... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - 1847 - 608 pages
...atmosphere, and an admirable clearness in the sky. Atnight, the stars have uncommon lustre, and the milky way shines gloriously in the firmament. There is also...display of the most brilliant meteors, which dart like rokets in the sky : ten or twelve of them are sometimes seen in an hour, assuming every colour : fiery,... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - 1850 - 394 pages
...and an admirable clearness in the sky. At night, the stars have uncommon luster, and the Milky Way shines gloriously in the firmament. There is also...them are sometimes seen in an hour, assuming every color — fiery red, blue, pale, and faint. It is a noble country for astronomical science, and great... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - 1855 - 608 pages
...neverceasiug display of the most brilliant meteors , which dart like rockets iu the sky : ton or Uvulve of them are sometimes seen in an hour, assuming every colour : fiery, red, blue , pale and faint. H is a noble country l'or astronomical science, and great must have been the avantage enjoyed hy the... | |
 | Dublin city, univ. coll - 1858 - 1070 pages
...natural does the origin of sim and fire worship seem to us in a country whose sky is thus described: "There is a constant serenity in its atmosphere, and...assuming every colour — fiery red, blue, pale, and faint".17 In the charming countries bordering the Levant and the .^Egean Sea, an extraordinary, varied.... | |
 | 1859 - 548 pages
...natural does the origin of sun and fire worship seem to us in a country whose sky is thus described: " There is a constant serenity in its atmosphere, and...display of the most brilliant meteors, which dart bke rockets in the sky; ten or twelve of them are sometimes seen in an hour, assuming every colour—fiery... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1864 - 554 pages
...loveliness of variously-colored falling-stars, and says the atmosphere is there so pure, that " there is a never-ceasing display of the most brilliant meteors, which dart like rockets in the sky ; ten or 1864.] [July, twelve are sometimes seen in an hour, assuming every color — fiery red, bluOj pale,... | |
 | Wilhelm Pitschner - 1864 - 190 pages
...SJÎont.etaue. an admirable clearness in the sky. At nighti the stars have uncommon lustrei and the milky wy shines gloriously in the firmament. There is also a neverceasing display of the most brilliant meteorsi which dart like rockets in the sky ; ten or twelve of them are sometimes seen in an houri... | |
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The stars have uncommon lustre, and the Milky Way shines gloriously in the firmament. There is also a never-ceasing display of the most brilliant meteors, which dart like rockets in the sky ; ten or twelve of them are sometimes seen in an hour, assuming... 
