 | SEVERAL HANDS - 1778 - 594 pages
...obferver, perceiving the fea remarkably luminous in the road of the Cape of Good Hope, during a perfeft calm, remarked that the oars of the canoes produced...when he took in his hand the water which contained phofphorus, he difcerned in it, for fome minutes, globules of light as large as the heads of pins.... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1778 - 590 pages
...produced a whitifti and pearly kind of lufr.-e : when he took in his hand the water which contained phofphorus, he difcerned in it, for fome minutes,...the heads of pins. When he prefled thefe globules, thsy appeared to his touch like a foft pnd thin pulp; and fome days after the fea was covered, near... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 422 pages
...obferver, perceiving the fea remarkably 4uminous in the road of the Cape of Good Hope during a perfeel calm, remarked, that the oars of the canoes produced...difcerned in it, for fome minutes, globules of light аз large as the heads of pins. When he prefled thefe globules, they appeared to his touch like a... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 688 pages
...; when he took in his hand the water which contained this phosphorus, he discerned in it, for some minutes, globules of light as large as the heads of pins. When he pressed these globules, they appeared to his touch like a soft and thin pulp ; and some days after... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 712 pages
...he took in his hand the water which contained this phosphorus, he discerned in it, for some minules, globules of light as large as the heads of pins. When he pressed these globules, they appeared to his touch like a soft and thin pulp ; and some days after... | |
 | 1816 - 746 pages
...obferver, perceiving the fea remarkably luminous in the road of the Cape of Good Hope during a pei-fed calm, remarked, that the oars of the canoes produced...water which contained this phofphorus, he difcerned hi it, for fome minutes, globules of light as large as the heads of pins. When he prefled thefe globules,... | |
 | Richard Lobb - 1817 - 418 pages
...lustre : when he took in his hand the water which contained phosphorus, he discerned in it, for some minutes, globules of light as large as the heads of pins. When he pressed these globules, they appeared to his touch like a soft and thin pulp ; and some days after... | |
 | Colin Mackenzie - 1822 - 774 pages
...: when .he took in hit hand the water which contained these phosphor!, he discerned in it, for some minutes, globules of light as large as the heads of pins. When he pressed these globules, they appeared, to his touch, like a soft and thin pulp ; and some days after,... | |
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... it, for fome minutes, globules of light as large as the heads of pins. When he prefled thefe globules, they appeared to his touch like a foft and thin pulp ; and fome days after the fea was covered near the coafts with whole banks of thefe little... 