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Page 428 - ... distant hills, and again leaves all in darkness, when in an instant it re-appears in vivid and successive flashes, and exhibits the nearest objects in all the brightness of day. During all this time the distant thunder never ceases to roll, and is only silenced by some nearer peal which bursts on the ear with such a sudden and tremendous crash as can scarcely fail to strike the most insensible heart with awe. At length the thunder ceases, and nothing is heard but the continual pouring of the...
Page 428 - Its approach is announced by vast masses of clouds that rise from the Indian ocean, and advance towards the north-east, gathering and thickening as they approach the land. After some threatening days, the sky assumes a troubled appearance in the evenings, and the monsoon in general sets in during the night.
Page 428 - It generally begins with violent blasts of wind, which are succeeded by floods of rain. For some hours lightning is seen almost without intermission ; sometimes it only illuminates the sky, and shows the clouds near the horizon ; at others it discovers the distant hills, and again leaves all in darkness, when in an instant it re-appears in vivid and successive flashes, and exhibits the nearest objects in all the brightness of day. During all this time the distant thunder never ceases to roll, and...
Page 340 - THE HORSE-HOEING HUSBANDRY ; or, A Treatise on the Principles of Tillage and Vegetation, wherein is taught a Method of introducing a sort of Vineyard Culture into the Corn-Fields, in order to increase their Product and diminish the Common Expense. By Jethro Tull, of Shalborne in the County of Berks.
Page 356 - ... our knowledge. When we consider that by this method, in such places as Buenos Ayres, animals which are there of little or no value, instead of being destroyed, as they often are, for their bones, may be boiled down, and mixed with the flour which all such countries produce, and so converted into a substance of such durability that it may be preserved with the greatest ease, and sent to distant countries, it seems as if a new means of subsistence was actually offered to us. Take the Argentine...
Page 428 - Monsoon this wind had been succeeded by still more sultry calms. But when the first violence of the storm is over, the whole earth is covered with a sudden but luxuriant verdure ; the rivers are full and tranquil ; the air is pure and delicious ; and the sky is varied and embellished with clouds. The effect of...
Page 7 - ... been submitted to experiment — the value of the culms simply exceeds that of the grass when in flower in the proportion of fourteen to nine. But though there is more nutriment contained in the seed crop of these grasses than in the flowering crop, nevertheless the loss of lattermath, (later mowing,) which would have been produced in the time the seed was ripening, would more than outweigh the superior quantity of nutritive matter contained in the seed crop ; and by aiming at the greater amount...
Page 8 - Grass in a dry State, are sufficiently obvious. By this means all the Constituents of the Grass are retained in a State of Integrity; the Sugar, by the Absence of Water, is protected from undergoing Decomposition, the...
Page 6 - ... therefore, it should be cut at that period when the largest amount of gluten, sugar, and other matter soluble in water is contained in it. And that period is not, generally speaking, when the plants have shot into seed ; for the principal substance is then woody fibre, which is totally insoluble...
Page 127 - Let us take a column of one mile in breadth, which is far below the average size, and suppose it passing over us without interruption for three hours, at the rate mentioned above of one mile in the minute.