 | William Nicholson - 1821 - 356 pages
...coat of white ashes, which frequently adhere to it when it has been some time ignited ; and it has a degree of brightness about as strong as that with...such a coal would be seen to glow in faint daylight. All the adjacent parts of the volcanic mountain seemed to be faintly illuminated by the eruption, and... | |
 | 1823 - 894 pages
...very thin coat of white ashes, which frequently adhere to it when it has been some time ignited ; and it had a degree of brightness about as strong as that...such a coal would be seen to glow in faint daylight. All the adjacent parts of the volcanic mountain seemed to be faintly illuminated by the eruption, and... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1826 - 254 pages
...a thin coat of white ashes, which frequently adheres to it, wheu it has been some time ignited, and it had a degree of brightness, about as strong as...such a coal would be seen to glow in faint day-light. 249. \nEclipse of the .Moo»ihappenswhentheearth, passing between the sun and moon, casts its shadow... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1830 - 728 pages
...very thin coat of white ashes, which frequently adhere to it when it has been some time ignited ; and it had a degree of brightness, about as strong as...such a coal would be seen to glow in faint daylight. All the adjacent parts of the volcanic mountain seemed to be faintly illuminated by the eruption, and... | |
 | William Enfield - 1832 - 282 pages
...a thin coat of white ashes, which frequently adhere to it, when it has been some time ignited ; and it had a degree of brightness about as strong as that...such a coal would be seen to glow in faint day-light. It is not yet determined whether there is an atmosphere belonging to the moon. The question is fully... | |
 | William Martin - 1832 - 504 pages
...of a small piece of burning charcoal, when it is covered by a very thin coat of white ashes,, having a degree of brightness about as strong as that with...such a coal would be seen to glow in faint daylight ; and these are observed to cast a visible light upon the adjacent mountains. There seems then but... | |
 | William Martin - 1835 - 336 pages
...of a small piece of burning charcoal when it is covered by a very thin coat of white ashes, having a degree of brightness about as strong as that with...such a coal would be seen to glow in faint daylight ; and these are observed to cast a visible light on the adjacent mountains." " This is indeed wonderful... | |
 | Charles Frederick Partington - 1838 - 1116 pages
...a thin coat of white ashes, which frequently adhere to it, when it has been some time ignited, and it had a degree of brightness about as strong as that...coal would be seen to glow in faint daylight. The surface of the moon when viewed with a telescope, presents an interesting and variegated aspect ; being... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1838 - 426 pages
...a small piece of burning charcoal when it is covered by a very thin coat of white ashes, and it has a degree of brightness about as strong as that with...such a coal would be seen to glow in faint daylight." Such are some of the pheriomena from which it has been concluded that volcanoes exist in the moon.... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1838 - 444 pages
...a small piece of burning charcoal when it is covered by a very thin coat of white ashes, and it has a degree of brightness about as strong as that with...such a coal would be seen to glow in faint daylight." Such are some of the phenomena from which it has been concluded that volcanoes exist in the moon. That... | |
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... it had a degree of brightness about as strong as that with which such a coal would be seen to glow in faint daylight. 
