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" But whilst gazing upon them in a perspective of about half a mile, we were thrilled with astonishment to perceive four successive flocks of large winged creatures, wholly unlike any kind of birds, descend with a slow even motion from the cliffs on the... "
Practical Talks by an Astronomer - Page 207
by Harold Jacoby - 1902 - 235 pages
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Miscellaneous extracts and fragments ... chiefly from works at present out ...

Miscellaneous extracts - 1839 - 390 pages
...half a mile, we were thrilled with astonishment to perceive four successive flocks of large winged creatures, wholly unlike any kind of birds, descend...cliffs on the western side, and alight upon the plain. They were first noticed by Dr. Herschel, who exclaimed, ' Now, Gentlemen, my theories against your...
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The Celebrated "moon Story,": Its Origin and Incidents; with a Memoir of the ...

Richard Adams Locke, Joseph Nicolas Nicollet - 1852 - 156 pages
...half a mile, we were thrilled with astonishment to perceive four successive flocks of large winged creatures, wholly unlike any kind of birds, descend...cliffs on the western side, and alight upon the plain. They were first noticed by Dr. Herschel, who exclaimed, ' Now, gentlemen, my theories against your...
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The Moon Hoax, Or, A Discovery that the Moon Has a Vast Population of Human ...

Richard Adams Locke - 1859 - 90 pages
...half a mile, we were thrilled with astonishment to perceive four successive flocks of large winged creatures, wholly unlike any kind of birds, descend...cliffs on the western side, and alight upon the plain. They were first noticed by Dr. Herschel, who exclaimed, ' Now, gentlemen, my theories against your...
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Henry J. Raymond and the New York Press, for Thirty Years: Progress of ...

Augustus Maverick - 1870 - 550 pages
...about half a mile, we were thrilled with astonishment to perceive four successive nocks of large winged creatures, wholly unlike any kind of birds, descend...cliffs on the western side, and alight upon the plain. They were first noticed by Dr. Hcrschel, who exclaimed, "Now, gentlemen, my theories against your proofs,...
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Henry J. Raymond and the New York Press, for Thirty Years: Progress of ...

Augustus Maverick - 1870 - 558 pages
...half a mile, we were thrilled with astonishment to perceive four successive flocks of large winged creatures, wholly unlike any kind of birds, descend with a slow, even motion from the eliffs on the western side, and alight upon the plain. They were first noticed by Dr. Herschel, who...
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Belgravia, Volume 30

1876 - 600 pages
...half a mile, we were thrilled with astonishment to perceive four successive flocks of large winged creatures, wholly unlike any kind of birds, descend...cliffs on the western side, and alight upon the plain. They were first noticed by Dr. Herschel, who exclaimed : " Now, gentlemen, my theories against your...
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Belgravia, a London magazine, conducted by M.E. Braddon, Volume 30

Belgravia - 1876 - 562 pages
...half a mile, we were thrilled with astonishment to perceive four successive flocks of large winged creatures, wholly unlike any kind of birds, descend...cliffs on the western side, and alight upon the plain. They were first noticed by Dr. Herschel, who exclaimed : " Now, gentlemen, my theories against your...
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Myths and Marvels of Astronomy

Richard Anthony Proctor - 1878 - 498 pages
...half a mile, we were thrilled with astonishment to perceive four successive flocks of large winged creatures, wholly unlike any kind of birds, descend...cliffs on the western side and alight upon the plain. They were first noticed by Dr. Herschel, who exclaimed : " Now, gentlemen, my theories against your...
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Myths and Marvels of Astronomy

Richard Anthony Proctor - 1896 - 422 pages
...astonishment to perceive four successive flocks of large winged creatures, wholly unlike any kind ot birds, descend with a slow even motion from the cliffs on the western side and alight upon the plain. They were first noticed by Dr. Herschel, who exclaimed : " Now, gentlemen, my theories against your...
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Annual Report of the Public Schools of the City of Oakland for the Year ...

Oakland (Calif.). Board of Education - 1901 - 158 pages
...gazing on these we were thrilled with astonishment to perceive four successive flocks of large winged creatures, wholly unlike any kind of birds, descend with a slow, even motion from the cliffs and alight on the plain. . . . Certainly they were like human beings, for as they walked along their...
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