 | Edward Andrew Parnell - 1844 - 488 pages
...place and make some experiments, and found, accordingly, that a lighted paper, though it were waved all over the ditch, the water would not take fire....person to make a dam in the ditch and fling out the watej, in order to try whether the steam which arose out of the ditch would then take fire, but found... | |
 | Edward Andrew Parnell - 1844 - 220 pages
...make some experiments, and found, accordingly, that a lighted paper, though it were waved all ovef the ditch, the water would not take fire. I then hired a person to make a dam in the ditch ard fling out the water, in order to try whether the stearn which arose out of the ditch would then... | |
 | Edward Andrew Parnell - 1844 - 204 pages
...place and make some experiments, and found, accordingly, that a lighted paper, though it were waved all over the ditch, the water would not take fire. I then hired a person to make a dam m the ditch and fling out the water, in order to try whether the steam which arose out of the ditch... | |
 | ALL. - 1859 - 380 pages
...experiments, and found accordingly that a lighted paper though it wore waved all over tho ditch tho water would not take fire. I then hired a person to make a dam in the ditch and fling out tho wator in order to try whether tho steam which arose out of the ditch would then take fire, but... | |
 | 1861 - 804 pages
...the place and make some experiments, and found accordingly that a lighted paper though it were waved all over the ditch the water would not take fire....then hired a person to make a dam in the ditch and flino- out the water in order to 3 try whether the steam which arose out of the ditch would then take... | |
 | 1863 - 372 pages
...the place and make some experiments, and found accordingly that a lighted paper though it were waved all over the ditch the water would not take fire....but found it would not. I still, however, pursued my experiments, and made him dig deeper; and when he had dug about the depth of half a yard we found a... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1881 - 506 pages
...brandy,' he found that though a lighted paper were waved over the ditch, it would not take fire. He then hired a person to make a dam in the ditch and...arose out of the ditch would then take fire ; but he found that it would not. Pursuing his experiment, he made the man dig deeper. When he had dug about... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1882 - 514 pages
...brandy," he found that though a lighted paper were waved over the ditch, it would not take fire. He then hired a person to make a dam in the ditch and...which arose out of the ditch would then take fire; but he found that it would not. Pursuing his experiment, he made the man dig deeper. When he had dug about... | |
 | Arthur Percy Morris Fleming, Harold John Brocklehurst - 1925 - 330 pages
...Place, and make some Experiments, and found accordingly that a lighted Paper, though it were waved all over the Ditch, the Water would not take Fire....Water, in order to try whether the steam which arose from the Ditch would take Fire, but found it would not. I still, however, pursued my Experiments, and... | |
 | 1828 - 484 pages
...see the place, and made some experiments, and found accordingly that thoughalighted paper were waved all over the ditch, the water would not take fire. I then hired a person to make a dam in the 2 E 2 ditch, aod fling out the water, in order to try whether the steam which arose from the ditch... | |
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... scarcely burn at all. It was after a long-continued season of rain that I came to see the place and make some experiments, and found accordingly that a lighted paper though it were waved all over the ditch the water would not take fire. I then hired... 