 | 1860 - 372 pages
...small piece of burning charcoal when it is covered with 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." Admiral Smyth, who also felt deeply interested in the matter, thus records his views: "This naturally... | |
 | John Platts - 1876 - 986 pages
...thin coat of white as.ies, which frequently adhere to it after 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 bv the eruption, and... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1902 - 448 pages
...discovered 3 volcanoes in the dark part of the moon. 2 of them seemed to be almost extinct, but the 3rd showed an actual eruption of fire, or luminous matter,...glow in faint daylight. The adjacent parts of the mountain seemed faintly illuminated by the eruption. A similar eruption appeared on May 4, 1783. On... | |
 | University of Iowa - 1921 - 876 pages
...luminous matter, resembling a small piece of burning charcoal covered by a very thin coat of white ashes: that with which 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 This... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1840 - 458 pages
...Celestial Scenery,' Chapter IV when it is covered with 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." That these were really volcanic fires, he considered further evident from the fact, that where a fire,... | |
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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. 
