 | 1839 - 512 pages
...its particles on meeting the earth, gave it the resemblance of a body of quicksilver of equal bulk. A few minutes after the appearance of this phenomenon, the deafening noise of the wind sunk to a distant roar, and the lightning, which from midnight had flashed and darted forkedly with... | |
 | 1837 - 538 pages
...brilliancy and spattering of its particles, when it reached the earth, gave it the appearance rather of a globe of quicksilver. A few minutes after the...deafening noise of the wind sank into a solemn murmur, or, more correctly, it resembled a distant roar, and lightning, which since midnight had played in... | |
 | William Reid - 1838 - 470 pages
...its particles on meeting the earth gave it the resemhlance of a hody of quicksilver of equal hulk. A few minutes after the appearance of this phenomenon, the deafening noise of the wind sank to a solemn murmur, or, more correctly expressed, a distant roar, and the lightning, which from midnight... | |
 | sir William Reid - 1838 - 474 pages
...its particles on meeting the earth gave it the resemblance of a body of quicksilver of equal bulk. A few minutes after the appearance of this phenomenon, the deafening noise of the wind sank to a solemn murmur, or, more correctly expressed, a distant roar, and the lightning, which from midnight... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1839 - 630 pages
...its particles on meeting the earth, gave it the resemblance of a body of quickpiiver of equal bulk. A few minutes after the appearance of this phenomenon, the deafening noise of the wind sank to a distant roar, and the lightning, which from midnight, had flashed and darted forkedly, with few... | |
 | 1839 - 510 pages
...its particles on meeting the earth, gave it the resemblance of a body of quicksilver of equal bulk. A few minutes after the appearance of this phenomenon, the deafening noise of the wind sunk to a distant roar, and the lightning, which from midnight had flashed and darted forkedly with... | |
 | 1839 - 938 pages
...its particles on meeting the earth, gnve it the resemblance of a body of quicksilver of equal bulk. A few minutes after the appearance of this phenomenon, the deafening noise ol the wind sank to a solemn murmur, or, more correctly expressed, a distant roar, and the lightning,... | |
 | 1839 - 464 pages
...its particles on meeting the earth, gave it the resemblance of a body of quicksilver of equal bulk. A few minutes after the appearance of this phenomenon, the deafening noise o\ the wind sank to a solemn murmur, or, more correctly expressed, a distant roar, and the lightning,... | |
 | James Pollard Espy - 1841 - 614 pages
...its particles on meeting the earth, gave it the resemblance of a body of quicksilver of equal bulk. A few minutes after the appearance of this phenomenon, the deafening noise of the wind sank to a solemn murmur, or, more correctly expressed, a distant roar, and the lightning, which, from midnight,... | |
 | LIEUT-COLONEL W. REID - 1850 - 580 pages
...its particles on meeting the earth gave it the resemblance of a body of quicksilver of equal bulk. A few minutes after the appearance of this phenomenon, the deafening noise of the wind sank to a solemn murmur, or, more correctly expressed, a distant roar, and the lightning, which from midnight... | |
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In shape and size it appeared much like a common barrel-shade;! its brilliancy and the spattering of its particles on meeting the earth gave it the resemblance of a body of quicksilver of equal bulk. A few minutes after the appearance of this phenomenon,... 
