The Complete Works, in Philosophy, Politics, and Morals, of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Now First Collected and Arranged: with Memoirs of His Early Life, Written by Himself ; in Three Volumes, Volume 2J. Johnson, and Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1806 - 468 pages |
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... whirlwind at Maryland On the north east storms in North America Meteorological imaginations and conjectures Suppositions and conjectures towards forming an hypothesis , for the explanation of the aurora borealis · - 69 On cold produced ...
... whirlwind at Maryland On the north east storms in North America Meteorological imaginations and conjectures Suppositions and conjectures towards forming an hypothesis , for the explanation of the aurora borealis · - 69 On cold produced ...
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... whirlwind , but consistent with the reversed ; for a direct one would sweep the bush inwards ; if , in that case , any thing of a bush would appear . The pillar of water , as they call it , from its likeness , I suppose to be only the ...
... whirlwind , but consistent with the reversed ; for a direct one would sweep the bush inwards ; if , in that case , any thing of a bush would appear . The pillar of water , as they call it , from its likeness , I suppose to be only the ...
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... whirlwind , it must have been pyramidical . Another thing remarkable , is , the curve in some of them : this is easy to conceive , in case of descending parcels of drops through various winds , at least till the cloud condenses so fast ...
... whirlwind , it must have been pyramidical . Another thing remarkable , is , the curve in some of them : this is easy to conceive , in case of descending parcels of drops through various winds , at least till the cloud condenses so fast ...
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... whirlwind , for a large distance round.hu I suppose there has been no instance of the water of a spout being salt , when coming across any vessel at sea . I suppose too , that there have been no salt rains ; these would make the case ...
... whirlwind , for a large distance round.hu I suppose there has been no instance of the water of a spout being salt , when coming across any vessel at sea . I suppose too , that there have been no salt rains ; these would make the case ...
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... whirlwind , water cannot be supposed to rise in large masses to the region of the clouds ; for the pressure of the surrounding atmosphere could not force it up in a continued body , or column ,, to a much greater height , than thirty ...
... whirlwind , water cannot be supposed to rise in large masses to the region of the clouds ; for the pressure of the surrounding atmosphere could not force it up in a continued body , or column ,, to a much greater height , than thirty ...
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