| Methodist Church - 1839 - 512 pages
...instantly extinct. In shape and size it appeared much like a common barrel shade ; its brilliancy, and the spattering of its particles on meeting the...of this phenomenon, the deafening noise of the wind sunk to a distant roar, and the lightning, which from midnight had flashed and darted forkedly with... | |
| 1837 - 538 pages
...its particles, when it reached the earth, gave it the appearance rather of a globe of quicksilver. A few minutes after the appearance of this phenomenon, the deafening noise of the wind sank into a solemn murmur, or, more correctly, it resembled a distant roar, and lightning, which since midnight... | |
| sir William Reid - 1838 - 474 pages
...instantly extinct. In shape and size it appeared much like a common barrel-shade ;t its brilliancy and the spattering of its particles on meeting the...the wind sank to a solemn murmur, or, more correctly expressed, a distant roar, and the lightning, which from midnight had flashed and darted forkedly with... | |
| William Reid - Navigation - 1838 - 470 pages
...instantly extinct. In shape and size it appeared much like a common harrel-shade ;f its hrilliancy and the spattering of its particles on meeting the earth gave it the resemhlance of a hody of quicksilver of equal hulk. A few minutes after the appearance of this phenomenon,... | |
| Methodist Church - 1839 - 510 pages
...instantly extinct. In shape and size it appeared much like a common barrel shade : its brilliancy, and the spattering of its particles on meeting the...of this phenomenon, the deafening noise of the wind sunk to a distant roar, and the lightning, which from midnight had flashed and darted forkedly with... | |
| Electronic journals - 1839 - 464 pages
...extinct. In shape and size, it appeared much like a common barrel shade. Its brilliancy, and the sparkling of its particles on meeting the earth, gave it the...appearance of this phenomenon, the deafening noise o\ the wind sank to a solemn murmur, or, more correctly expressed, a distant roar, and the lightning,... | |
| Meteorology - 1839 - 938 pages
...common barrel shade. Its brilliancy, and the sparkling of its particles on meeting the earth, gnve it the resemblance of a body of quicksilver of equal...appearance of this phenomenon, the deafening noise ol the wind sank to a solemn murmur, or, more correctly expressed, a distant roar, and the lightning,... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1839 - 630 pages
...instantly extinct. In shape and size it appeared much like a common barrel shade ; its brilliancy, and the spattering of its particles on meeting the earth, gave it the resemblance of a body of quickpiiver of equal bulk. A few minutes after the appearance of this phenomenon, the deafening noise... | |
| James Pollard Espy - 1841 - 614 pages
...extinct. In shape and size, it appeared much like a common barrel shade. Its brilliancy, and the sparkling of its particles on meeting the earth, gave it the...the wind sank to a solemn murmur, or, more correctly expressed, a distant roar, and the lightning, which, from midnight, had flashed and darted forkedly,... | |
| Physics - 1841 - 1316 pages
...would have done, and was instantly extinct : its brilliancy, and the spattering of its particles on the earth, gave it the resemblance of a body of quicksilver of equal bulk." Shortly afterwards, the lightning recurred in terrific grandeur, and the hurricane in increased violence... | |
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