 | 1877 - 444 pages
..."Eemove for a single summer night the aqueous vapours from the air which overspreads this country, and you would assuredly destroy every plant capable of being destroyed by a freezing temperature."—Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, vol. iv., p. 7. On the Construction... | |
 | George Montague Wheeler, Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.) - 1878 - 502 pages
...overspreads this country, and every plant capable of being destroyed by a freezing temperature would perish. The warmth of our fields and gardens would pour itself...upon an island held fast in the iron grip of frost.' These, then, being the climatic conditions, somewhat, of the plains during the growing period of the... | |
 | Royal Society of South Africa - 1878 - 922 pages
...vapour from the or 1 which overspreads this country, and you would assuredly destroy ever; plant eapable of being destroyed by a freezing temperature. The...itself unrequited into space, and the sun would rise on an island held fast in the iron grip of frost The aqueous vapour constitutes a local dam by which... | |
 | New Hampshire. Department of Agriculture - 1879 - 718 pages
...and vegetable life. Prof. Tyndall, speaking of the effects upon England of such conditions, says : " The warmth of our fields and gardens would pour itself unrequited into space ; and the summer's sun would rise in the morning with scorching power on an island fast bound with frost." The... | |
 | New Hampshire. Department of Agriculture - 1879 - 718 pages
...and vegetable life. Prof. Tyndall, speaking of the effects upon England of such conditions, says : " The warmth of our fields and gardens would pour itself unrequited into space; and the summer's sun would rise in the morning with scorching power on an island fast bound with frost." The... | |
 | National cyclopaedia - 1879 - 698 pages
...' Remove for a single summer night the aqueous vapour from the air which overspreads this country, and you would assuredly destroy every plant capable of being destroyed by a freezing temperature.' See also article on SUN. (Heat a Mode of Motion, by Professor Tyndall, London, 1870; H'aMs' Dictionary... | |
 | 1880 - 892 pages
...man. Remove for a single summer-night the aqueous vapour from the air which overspreads this country, and you would assuredly destroy every plant capable...itself unrequited into space, and the sun would rise on an island held fast in the iron grip of frost. The aqueous vapour constitutes a local dam by which... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1881 - 572 pages
...Rcmovo for a single summer-night the aqucous vapor from the air which overspreads this country, and yon would assuredly destroy every plant capable of being...island held fast in the iron grip of frost. The aqueous vapor constitutes a local dam, by which the temperature at the earth's surface is deepened : the dam,... | |
 | Alfonzo Gardiner - 1881 - 214 pages
...space. "Remove for a single summer night the aqueous vapour from the air which overspreads this country, and you would assuredly destroy every plant capable...itself unrequited into space, and the sun would rise on an island held fast in the iron grip of frost. The aqueous vapour constitutes a local dam, by which... | |
 | David Page - 1883 - 394 pages
...country, and you will assuredly destroy every plant capable of being destroyed by a freezing atmosphere. The warmth of our fields and gardens would pour itself...sun would rise upon an island held fast in the iron grasp of frost." As previously mentioned, the humidity of the atmosphere is confined chiefly to its... | |
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Remove for a single summer night the aqueous vapour from the air which overspreads this country, and you would assuredly destroy every plant capable of being destroyed by a freezing temperature. The warmth of our fields and gardens would pour itself unrequited... 
