| Matthew Fontaine Maury - Marine meteorology - 1856 - 636 pages
...healthful by the alternation of winds which come from the sea by day, and from the land by night. About ten in the morning the heat of the sun has played upon...with a most delightful and invigorating freshness. 231. When a fire is kindled on the hearth, we may, if we will observe the moats floating in the room,... | |
| Matthew Fontaine Maury - History - 1860 - 542 pages
...place — the sea, which is the cooler by day, and the land, which is the cooler by night. About ten in the morning the heat of the sun has played upon...with a most delightful and invigorating freshness. 315. When a fire is kindled on the hearth, we may, if we will CHuM of iud ud observe the moats floating... | |
| Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1866 - 408 pages
...place — the sea, which is the cooler by day, and the land, which is the cooler by night. About ten in the morning the heat of the sun has played upon...a most delightful and invigorating freshness. When a fire is kindled on the hearth, we may, if we will observe the moats floating in the room, see that... | |
| Readers - 1866 - 408 pages
...place — the sea, which is the cooler by day, and the land, which is the cooler by night. About ten in the morning the heat of the sun has played upon...a most delightful and invigorating freshness. When a fire is kindled on the hearth, we may, if we will observe the moats floating in the room, see that... | |
| Edward Balfour - India - 1873 - 1230 pages
...place — the sea, which is the cooler by day, and the land, which is the cooler by night. About ten in the morning the heat of the sun has played upon...with a most delightful and invigorating freshness. — Burton's Pilgrimage to Meccah, Vol. i, p. 323 ; Dr. Forbes JVinslow, MD, on Light, London, 1867... | |
| Edward Balfour - India - 1873 - 1226 pages
...place — the sea, which is the cooler by day, and the land, which is the cooler by night. About ten in the morning the heat of the sun has played upon...with a most delightful and invigorating freshness.' Burtons Pilgrimage to Mcccah, Vol. i, p. 323 ; Dr. Forbes Winslow, MD, on Light, London, 18G7 ; Maury's... | |
| John Knox Laughton - Meteorology - 1873 - 416 pages
...must have had much positive experience of it. Captain Maury, for instance, writes : — " About ten in the morning the heat of the sun has played upon...the distance of several miles, begins to flow in." But a very few pages further on he quotes from Captain Jansen of the Dutch Navy : " Yonder, far out... | |
| Edward Balfour - India - 1873 - 1234 pages
...which is the cooler by night. About ten in the morning the heat of the sun has played upon the laud with sufficient intensity to raise its temperature...with a most delightful and invigorating freshness. — Burtons Pilgrimage to Mcccah, Vol. \, p. 323 ; Dr. Forbes If'inslow, MD, on flight, London, 1867... | |
| Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1873 - 408 pages
...its temperature above that of the water. A portion of this heat being imparted to the air above it, causes it to rise ; when the air, first from the beach,...with a most delightful and 'invigorating freshness. observe the motes floating in the room, that those nearest to the chimney are the first to feel the... | |
| Charles Joseph Barnes - Readers - 1884 - 524 pages
...its temperature above that of the water. A portion of this heat being imparted to the air above it, causes it to rise; when the air, first from the beach...with a most delightful and invigorating freshness. the room, that those nearest to the chimney are the first to feel the draught, and to obey it—they... | |
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