 ... false ponds' seems generally not well understood. They have usually been attributed to refraction, by which a section of the bordering sky would appear below the horizon : but there can be no doubt that they are the effect of reflection, upon a gas...  The Leading Facts of New Mexican History - Page 469by Ralph Emerson Twitchell - 1917Full view - About this book
 | Josiah Gregg - Indians of North America - 1845 - 344 pages
...no doubt that they are the effect of reflection, upon a gas emanating perhaps from the sun-scorched earth and vegetable matter. Or it may be that a surcharge...beyond : and thus the opposite sky being reflected in the pond of gas, gives the appearance of water. As a proof that it is the effect 100 EXTENSIVE VIEW.... | |
 | Josiah Gregg - History - 1845 - 344 pages
...no doubt that they are the effect of reflection, upon a gas emanating perhaps from the sun-scorched earth and vegetable matter. Or it may be that a surcharge of carbonic acid, precipitated upon the fiats and sinks of those plains, by the action of the sun, produces the effect. At least, it appears... | |
 | Josiah Gregg - Indians of North America - 1849 - 338 pages
...no doubt that they are the effect of reflection, upon a gas emanating perhaps from the sun-scorched earth and vegetable matter. Or it may be that a surcharge...beyond : and thus the opposite sky being reflected in the pond of gas, gives the appearance of water. As a proof that it is the effect 734.944 of reflection,... | |
 | Josiah Gregg - Indians of North America - 1856 - 664 pages
...no doubt that they are the effect of reflection, upon a gas emanating perhaps from the sun-scorched earth and vegetable matter. Or it may be that a surcharge...beyond : and thus the opposite sky being reflected in the pond of gas, gives the appearance of water. As a proof that it is the effect of reflection, I have... | |
 | Josiah Gregg - Indians of North America - 1857 - 662 pages
...no doubt that they are the effect of reflection, upon a gas emanating perhaps from the sun-scorched earth and vegetable matter. Or it may be that a surcharge of carbonic acid, precipitated agon the flats and sinks of those plains, by the action of the sun, produces the effect At least, it... | |
 | John C. Van Tramp - Mississippi River - 1858 - 678 pages
...no doubt that they are the effect of reflection upon a gas emanating, perhaps, from the sun-scorched earth and vegetable matter. Or it may be that a surcharge...carbonic acid, precipitated upon the flats and sinks of these plains by the action of the sun, produces the effect At least it appears of sufficient density,... | |
 | John C. Van Tramp - Mississippi River Valley - 1866 - 710 pages
...no doubt that they are the effect of reflection upon a gas emanating, perhaps, from the sun-scorched earth and vegetable matter. Or it may be that a surcharge...carbonic acid, precipitated upon the flats and sinks of these plains by the action of the sun, produces the effect. At least it appears of sufficient density,... | |
 | John C. Van Tramp - Mississippi River Valley - 1866 - 698 pages
...no doubt that they are the effect of reflection upon a gas emanating, perhaps, from the sun-scorched earth and vegetable matter. Or it may be that a surcharge of carbonic aci4, precipitated upon the flats and sinks of these plains by the action of the sun, produces the... | |
 | John C. Van Tramp - Frontier and pioneer life - 1868 - 822 pages
...no doubt that they are the effect of reflection upon a gas emanating, perhaps, from the sun-scorched earth and vegetable matter. Or it may be that a surcharge of carbonic acid, precipitated upon tlie flats and sinks of these plains by the action of the sun, produces the effect. At least it appears... | |
 | John C. Van Tramp - Mississippi River Valley - 1870 - 806 pages
...no doubt that they are the effect of reflection upon a gas emanating, perhaps, from the sun-scorched earth and vegetable matter. Or it may be that a surcharge...carbonic acid, precipitated upon the flats and sinks of these plains by the action of the sun, produces the effect At least it appears of sufficient density,... | |
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