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" This current is strongest in dry frosty weather, and in long spells of rain weakest. Regular inspirations and expirations of air, by caverns and fissures, have been probably enough accounted for, by supposing them combined with intermitting fountains;... "
Geography Made Easy: Being an Abridgement of the American Universal ... - Page 183
by Jedidiah Morse - 1818 - 364 pages
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Notes on the State of Virginia: With an Appendix Relative to the Murder of ...

Thomas Jefferson - 1803 - 388 pages
...is w'hat is called the Bloivhig cave. It is in the -side of a hill, is of about 100 feet diameter, and emits constantly a current of air, of such force...as to keep the weeds prostrate to the distance of twenty yards before it. This current is strongest in dry frosty weather, and in long spells of rairl...
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The Wonders of Nature and Art: Or, A Concise Account of Whatever ..., Volume 9

Thomas Smith - 1804 - 356 pages
...Blowing Cave, which is of about a- hundred feet diameter, and constantly emits a current of air, with such force as to keep the weeds prostrate to the distance of twenty jiards before it; this current is strongest, in -dry frosty weather, and in long spells of rain...
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A Geographical and Historical View of the World: Exhibiting a ..., Volume 5

John Bigland - 1811 - 588 pages
...with pillars and monuments. The blowing cave in Virginia is remarkable for constantly emitting a wind of such force as to keep the weeds prostrate to the distance of twenty yards from its mouth. This singular current of air is the strongest in frosty, and the weakest...
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Geography: Or, A Description of the World

1820 - 352 pages
...mountain in the side of a hill, is what is called the "Blowing Cave," about 100 feet diameter, which emits constantly a current of air of such force as to keep the weeds prostrate to the distance of twenty yards. This current is strongest in dry, frosty weather, and weakest in long seasons of rain....
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Notes on the State of Virginia

Thomas Jefferson - 1832 - 296 pages
...the Blowing cave. It is in the side of a hill, is of about 100 feet diameter, and emits constantly n current of air, of such force, as to keep the weeds prostrate to the distance of twenty yards before it. This current is strongest in dry, frosty weather, and in long spells of rain...
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A New and Comprehensive Gazetteer of Virginia, and the District of Columbia

Joseph Martin, William Henry Brockenbrough - 1835 - 644 pages
...cavity in the side of a hill, of about 6 feet in diameter, and emits constantly a current of air. 1'his current is strongest in dry frosty weather, and in long spells of rair weakest. Regular inspirations and expirations of air, by caverns and fissures have been probably...
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The Wonders of Nature and Art: Comprising Upwards of Three Hundred of the ...

Joseph Taylor - 1838 - 672 pages
...blowing cave, which is of about a hundred feet diameter, and constantly emits a current of air, with such force as to keep the weeds prostrate to the distance of twenty yards before it. This current is strongest in the frosty weather, and in long spells of rain...
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Southey's common-place book. Ed. by J.W. Warter, Volume 2

Robert Southey - 1849 - 710 pages
...what is called the Blowing Cave. It is in the side of a hill, is of about an hundred feet diameter, and emits constantly a current of air of such force,...as to keep the weeds prostrate to the distance of twenty yards before it. This current is strongest in dry frosty weather, and weakest in long periods...
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Southey's Common-place Book, Volume 2

Robert Southey - 1849 - 756 pages
...what is called the Blowing Cave. It is in the side of a hill, is of about an hundred feet diameter, and emits constantly a current of air of such force,...as to keep the weeds prostrate to the distance of twenty yards before it. This current is strongest in dry frosty weather, and weakest in long periods...
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Southey's Common-place Book: Special collections

Robert Southey - 1849 - 714 pages
...constantly a current of air of such force, as to keep the weeds prostrate to the distance of twenty yards before it. This current is strongest in dry frosty weather, and weakest in long periods of rain. Regular inspirations and expirations of air, by caverns and fissures,...
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