 | Mungo Ponton - 1866 - 336 pages
...Herschel, in a paper recently published in Good Words (April 1863), expresses himself as follows : — " The exceedingly definite shape of these objects, their...a common direction, — that namely of the bridge APPENDIX. 263 itself), all these characters seem quite repugnant to the notion of their being of a... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1867 - 534 pages
...spot, presenting much the sort of appearance that the small leaves of some water-plants or seaweeds do at the edge of a deep hole of clear water. The...lie across and athwart each other (except where they forfn a sort of bridge across a spot, in which case they seem to affect a common direction, that, namely,... | |
 | William Mattieu Williams - 1870 - 254 pages
...spot, presenting much the sort of appearance that the small leaves of some water-plants or sea- weeds do at the edge of a deep hole of clear water. The...definite shape of these objects, their exact similarity to one another, and the way in which they lie across and athwart each other (except when they form... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1871 - 552 pages
...appearance that the small learn of some water-plants or sea-weeds do at the edge of a deep hole of dear water. The exceedingly definite shape of these objects...case they seem to affect a common direction, that, name);, of the bridge itself) — all these characters seem quite repugnant to the notion of their... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1872 - 576 pages
...a deep hole of clear wster. The exceedingly definite shape of these objects ; their exact Mmilarity one to another; and the way in which they lie across...namely, of the bridge itself) — all these characters scem quite repugnant to the notion of their being of a vaporous,, a cloudy, or a fluid nature. Nothing... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1875 - 452 pages
...spot, presenting much the sort of appearance that the small leaves of some water-plants or sea-weeds do at the edge of a deep hole of clear water. The...similarity one to another ; and the way in which they lie athwart and across each other (except where they form a sort of bridge across a spot, in which case... | |
 | Wonders - 1877 - 136 pages
...presenting much the same sort of appearance that the small leaves of some water-plants or sea-weeds do at the edge of a deep hole of clear water. The remarkably definite shape of these objects, says Sir J. Herschel ; their exact similarity to one another,... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1874 - 800 pages
...spot, presenting much the sort of appearance that the small leaves of some water-plants or sea- weeds do at the edge of a deep hole of clear water. The...similarity one to another ; and the way in which they lie athwart and across each other (except where they form a sort of bridge across a spot, in which case... | |
 | 1876 - 806 pages
...most part inwards toward the middle of the spot, presenting much the sort of appearance that the small leaves of some water-plants or sea-weed, do at the...affect a .common direction, that, namely of the bridge itself)—all these characters seem quite repugnant to the notion of their being of a vaporous, a cloudy,... | |
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... do at the edge of a deep hole of clear water. The exceedingly definite shape of these objects; their exact similarity one to another; and the way in which they lie across and athwart each other (except where they form a sort of bridge across a spot,... 