 I have seen the wild stone-avalanches of the Alps, which smoke and thunder down the declivities with a vehemence almost sufficient to stun the observer. I have also seen snow-flakes descending so softly as not to hurt the fragile spangles of which they...  Cyclopadic Science Simplified - Page 159by John Henry Pepper - 1869 - 685 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Tyndall - 1866 - 492 pages
...precipice 433 feet high. I have seen the wild stone-avalanches of the Alps, which smoke and thunder down the declivities with a vehemence almost sufficient...; yet to produce, from aqueous vapour, a quantity of that tender material which a child could carry, demands an exertion of energy competent to gather... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans - 1866 - 480 pages
...TYNDALI, remarks, ' I have seen the wild stone avalanches of the Alps, which smoke and thunder down the declivities with a vehemence almost sufficient...which they were composed; yet to produce from aqueous vapor a quantity of that tender material which a child could carry, demands an exertion of energy competent... | |
 | 1866 - 646 pages
...precipice 433 feet high. I have seen the wild stone-avalanches of the Alps, which smoke and thunder down the declivities, with a vehemence almost sufficient to stun the observer. I have also seen enow-flakes descending so softly, as not to hurt the fragile spangles, of which they were composed.... | |
 | 1866 - 374 pages
...precipice 433 feet high. I have seen the wild stone-avalanches of the Alps, which smoke and thunder down the declivities with a vehemence almost sufficient to stun the observer. I have also seen snowllakes, descending so softly as not to hurt the fragile spangles of which they were composed ;... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1868 - 560 pages
...precipice 433 feet high. I have seen the wild stoneavalanches of the Alps, which smoke and thunder down the declivities, with a vehemence almost sufficient...which a child could carry, of that tender material, • In Rumford's experiments the heat of condensation was included in his estimate or calorific power;... | |
 | 1869 - 730 pages
...lavished around us: "I have seen the wild stone avalanches of the Alps, which smoke and thunder down the declivities with a vehemence almost sufficient...observer. I have also seen snowflakes descending so quickly as not to hurt the fragile spangles of which they are composed ; yet, to produce from aqueous... | |
 | 1870 - 502 pages
...' I have seen, ' says Tyndall, 'the wild stone avalanches of the Alps which smoke and thunder down the declivities with a vehemence almost sufficient to stun the observer. I have also seen snownakes descending so softly as not to hurt the fragile spangles of which they were composed ; yet,... | |
 | George Farrer Rodwell - 1871 - 620 pages
...precipice 433 feet high. I have seen the wild stone avalanches of the Alps, which smoke and thunder down the declivities with a vehemence almost sufficient...competent to gather up the shattered blocks of the largest stone avalanche I have ever seen and pitch them to twice the height from which theyfell." — //«if,... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1871 - 548 pages
...power. ' I have seen,' he says, ' the wild stone-avalanches of the Alps, which smoke and thunder down the declivities with a vehemence almost sufficient...competent to gather up the shattered blocks of the largest stone-avalanches I have ever seen, and pitch them to twice the height from which they fell.' And when... | |
 | 1865 - 372 pages
...precipice 433 feet high. I have seen the wild stone-avalanches of the Alps, which smoke and thunder down the declivities with a vehemence almost sufficient...they were composed ; yet, to produce, from aqueous vapor, a quantity of that tender material which a child could carry, demands an exertion of energy... | |
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