 | John Brocklesby - 1859 - 286 pages
...anchored at Port Praya, in St. Jago, Mr. Darwin collected a little package of impalpable 5ww«.-colored dust, which appeared to have been filtered from the wind by the gauze of the vane at the mast-head. In speaking of this phenomenon, he remarks, that the atmosphere in this region is usually filled with... | |
 | 1863 - 788 pages
...packet of this brown-coloured fine dust, which appeared to have been filtered from the wind by tho gauze of the vane at the mast-head. Mr. Lyell has also given me four packet« of dust which fell on a vessel a few hundred XATTTRE. mileí northward of these island*. Professor... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1890 - 646 pages
...morning before we anchored at Porto Praya, I collected a little packet of this brown-coloured fine dust, which appeared to have been filtered from the...miles northward of these islands. Professor Ehrenberg l finds that this dust consists in great part of infusoria with siliceous shields, and of the siliceous... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1890 - 616 pages
...morning before we anchored at Porto Praya, I collected a little packet of this brown-coloured fine dust, which appeared to have been filtered from the...hundred miles northward of these islands. Professor Khrenberg l finds that this dust consists in great part of infusoria with siliceous shields, and of... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1896 - 542 pages
...morning before we anchored at Porto Pray a, I collected a little packet of this brown-coloured fine dust, which appeared to have been filtered from the...vessel a few hundred miles northward of these islands. Professoi Ehrenberg* finds that this dust consists in great part of infusoria with siliceous shields,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1908 - 542 pages
...morning before we anchored at Porto Praya, I collected a little packet of this brown-coloured fine dust, which appeared to have been filtered from the...miles northward of these islands. Professor Ehrenberg 1 finds that this dust consists in great part of infusoria with siliceous shields, and of the siliceous... | |
 | Sarah Andrews - 2004 - 356 pages
...Porto Praya [Canary Islands], I collected a little packet of this brown-colored dust, which appears to have been filtered from the wind by the gauze of the vane at the masthead ... I have found no less than fifteen different accounts of dust having fallen on vessels when far... | |
 | Dolores R. Piperno - 2006 - 252 pages
...slightly injured the astronomical instruments. I collected a little packet of this brown-coloured fine dust, which appeared to have been filtered from the wind by the gauze of the vane at the masthead. Professor Ehrenberg finds that this dust consists in great part of the infusoria with siliceous shields,... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 2007 - 417 pages
...morning before we anchored at Porto Praya, I collected a little packet of this brown-coloured fine dust, which appeared to have been filtered from the...wind by the gauze of the vane at the masthead, Mr Lyeli has also given me four packets of dust which fell on a vessel a few hundred miles northward of... | |
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... injured the astronomical instruments. The morning before we anchored at Porto Praya, I collected a little packet of this brown-coloured fine dust, which appeared to have been filtered from the wind by the gauze of the vane at the masthead. 
