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Show 'f different from ltght. Matter of heat 1 h cxclufion of light. . d oo fathoms ileep. Sea-ice Jce-1fian s I 1 f n lee evaporates, more di_fficult of fold lOlc~-iflands increafe. produclllg great _cot d into fouthern eliShould be naVll? e '{lands have floated Vegetables bl.m~~~~~fa~e ~f thei1 lc.1v~s to Tnrn the uppc• 1 npofcd as 1t efcapes the light. ·water ~ ;~~~e veoetables punfy from th(;lr pores. ' o 4 6 2 air in the ~d)' t:te 0.n1)s the {Trowth of mates. Some _lce-1 " Steam attend-fonthwards 6o mlles _lono. 529 ' . h n warm chmat6S . El" h~c~~-w0~.~~~;~~~ectri !ed 1}1in Coone r· lllg t em 1 l tl e fands of Abyffima 5+7 plants . - 11 r 1 ·n vto<"table ~, and by "\V atcr dccompo•cc 1 o 46 3 l'lccl:ric.ity . . k which appear by heat, Mon!o~n coo s 1. 1 Ct rifed plus, as Afcendmg vapoUl s ~~~~e~t of M r. Benappears fro~n. anf exp~1 ts vapour in clouds. 1T1e1~~~:d1 SympathetiC ~n sl \ l lVLtdc from :1~~:~;~~r:t~~~1 combinatwn of m- .md diC1ppear 1n t IC co c • · 487 cobalt . s•s l1ammable and vital a1rs 553 St,u· in Caffiopc's cha1r CANTO U. So\:J.r Yolcanos analogous to tcrre!l rial and l:Jiw· one>. Spots of the iun arc ex-cavat ions f f the earth, Crean Sphene til {ioe~mv~pou r. CharaCter of d 1 d and the two :tirs occupy l~f, rc c ou ' 'ne of them before, and gl~e fpa clc' thtan Oxyoene and azote produce 111- I+ out tea : :::. I43; trons ac1d f, d o· t bles Cha-from co'1< en Mr. Whitehur~lde.fl: 1art of the earth.- I ron from clecompo e veoe a d. lc - of 17 )I, beat fprings. Fern-leaves 111 no u d , 1 s .'. Concentric fpheres of !ron no u e Gran.Jte the 1_, I ftl clay iron, uon. l . like iron-filings ar- Tl n lunefl:one. Anu a y, , .· owing to P0 a~J ty, t Great flrata of the co~f, fanciflone. Three great concen.t11C divilions ~f the_ globe l'fiands before the FormatiOn ot pnmeva 1 ' '{i The ranged by a magn_e . .· I g 3 earth owin" to thelr polanty G f e 35· Hardne f~ of fl:eel fot tool~. ave UjJ ~- . 't to the European natwns. Weldmo production of the ~noobn. pa;~;e~· of the Golden A ge. Ram- ow. fea originally fre!h · 1 Venu riling from the fea, an Iuerog yhic emblem of the produfl.ion of the earth benca' h the ocean 1 f p · r~ "'reat volcanos iu the centra parts o the ~arth. ' From f1cam, inflammable gfs, and vital air. Preknt volc,tnos hke mo c-hilMls oon . f 1 It s h;~s little or no atmo p lere. b oce,ln is frozen. Is not yet inhabited, ut mw be in time ~ t f .Earth's <txis chanp-ed hy the a eel~ o the moon. Its diu rna\ motwn retal ded. One g;rcat tide l .i;ncf1one produced from !hells. Spars \\ illt double rcfraEtio n:;. MarblE~. Chalk A ntieut !btues of Hercules. ~nt~:f.~IS.' 1\pollo. Venus. Ddigns of I"ou 1 we. ~-Ionument of General Wade Sntucs of Y.rs. Damer . ~'for,lifcs rc!t on limcfio ne. Of unmenfe cxt<:nt d' . Salts from animal and vcge tabl~ ho ' ;es d ~ colllpo!c each other, ~xcept m~nn e !.t t. ~'ll t mines in p,lland . Timber docs not deray in t!tcm. R ock-falt produc~d by cva; oration fro l'l 1<::~-water. Fofhl _lhel\s Jn ~al t mine>. Salt in hollow pyramids. ln cubes. S<"a-water cont.uns about one-thirtieth of fait . Nitre, native in Benr;al and ~t:tly. N•: trous gas combi1Jed with ,.I tal mr procluc~ s r~r~e~l Its maunetifm. Ufes of gold I92 36 ° Artificial mag~tets i~nproved ?Y~~~~;{. and Dr. Kdnigl~, pe~~~~i~yb~~~·O' to the How pro uce · . Th 1 ctic fluid 4 7 earth's rotatory motwn. e e e ~rm "'ra~ al~d the matter or heat~~:n~;1?~e~ein; the ":Jtate on_ea'Fo~~~~e~earefl: the axis of the llgh~e!l: IS EleEl:ricity rroduces northern 68 mot10n. . f I 93 lin·hts by its centnfuga mo Jon Fl' t oAcids ~rom vegetable recre~~~~t\ts ·b~~~e Sz 1!tas itstfr~;o;~etl~~t;orl~, aml in par l !1 p~he new Precious Cl:ones 215 lroDiamond .. Its great refraEl:io~1 of light. 84- Its volatility by he<tt. If an Jnflamma- n& 93 bleF~~e~y of the new world f~om fermenta- . Whence fulphur and bitumen by_ft~b- IOI ~i:;tion the clay, coal, and il'ln~ lel~almng 27 5 Colot:rs not di!l:ingmfhable. 1!1 t le ena- IOJ m.el-kiln, till a bit of dry wood lS 111trodu~ed 283 , I J6 Etntl ian pottery prior to the fonnda~~n of Rome. Excelled i1~ fine _font~, ~~hi~~ •1 non-v1t reo us encan!l1c pamtlnod d ~vas lorl: till l efl.ored by Mr. We gwoo . 1.9I . Sttll influences the ta!l:e of the mhabltants Mr. Werlgwood's cameo of a !lave 111 315 chtins, a nd of Hope .Balfo-relievos of two or more co 1o urs 119 not made by the antients, Invented by Mr,\Vcdgwood 34-: Petroleum and naptha have been fublimed. Whence je t and amber. They abforb air. Armies of Cambyfes defl:royed by fa- AttraCl: rtraws when rubber!. Elet1ri city from eleEl:ron, the g reek name for amber 353 Clefts in granite rocks in which metals are found. Iron and mangancfe found in all vegetables. Manganefe in limefl:onc. Warm fp1·ings from Iteam rifingup the clefts of g ranite and limetl.one. Pondero tiS eart·h in lime- 11:one clefts and in granite. Copper, lead, iron, from dcfcending material s. High mountains of granite cont.1in no ores ncar their fummits. Tranfmutation of metals. mine, and by fand-fl:orms 435 Whirling turrets of fand defcribed and explained 478 Granite ntcws iron as it decompofes. Marble decompofes. Imrnenfe quantity of charcoal exi(l:s in limefl:one. Volcanic flags decompofe, and become clay 523 MillCl:ones raifed by wooden pegs 524 Hannibal made a paffage by fire over the Alps 534 Of lead into ralamy. Into filv cr 398 Pa!fed tenfe of many words twofold, as driven or drove, fpoken or fpoke. A poetic li~n~ ~9 ················ CANTO III. Clouds confifl: of aqueous fpheres, which do not ealily unite, like globules of qllickfilver, as may be feen in riding th1·ough water. Owing to electricity. Snow. lla i lfl:one~ rounded by att rition and ditrolution of their angles. Not from frozen drops of water 15 Dew on points and edge of grafs, or hangs over cabbage'-leaves, needle floats on water I 8 l\ Ti(l: · over rivers and on mountains. Halo r ou nd the moon. Shadow of a chtll·cht1eeple upon a mi t1. Dry mift, or want of tranfparency oft he air, align of fair- weather 20 Tides on hoth fides of the earth . M oon's t ides f110uld be much greater than the earth's tides. The ocean of the moon is frozen 61 Spiral form of fh ells {aves calcareous mat ter. Serves them as an o rgan of hearing. Calcareous matter produced from infl amed membranes. Colo u rs of fh cll s, labr<tdore-t1one f rom mother-pearl. ForTi! fl1 clls not now found recent 66 Sea-infects like fl owers. AE!-inia 81 Production of pearls, not a di feafe of the fi!h. Crab's eyes. R efet·voirs of p ear-ly matter 84 Rocks or co ral in the fo 1th-fea. Cora! - loid limefloncat Linld, and Coal brook Dale 90 Ro(ks thrown from mountains, ice from g laciers, and portion of earth, or morafTes, removed by cplumns of water. Earth-mo. tion in Shropfhi re . \Vater of wells riling above the level of the ground . St. Alkmonrl 's well 11e<~r Derby might be raifecl ma.1yyard., fo~>tofe rve th etow n . Wel l at Shcernefs, and at Hartford in Con necticut I 16 Monfoons at: ended with rain. Overflowing of the Nile. Vortex ofafcending ai r. Riling of th<: DogCl:ar announces the floods of Situations exempt from rain. At the Line in Lower Egypt. On the coafl: of Peru I 31 Giefar, a boiling fountain in Iceland. Water with great d egrees of heat dilfolves filiceous matter. Earthquake from fl:cam zso \Varm fprings not from decompofed pyrites. From fl:eam rifing up fi!fures from great depths I 66 Buxton bath po!feOes 82 degrees of heat. Is improperly called a warm bath. A chill at immerfion, ancl then a fenfation of warmth, like the eye in an obfcure room, owing to increafed fenfibility of the fkin r8.J. Water compounded of pure air and inflammable air with as much matter of heat as preferves it fluid. Perpetually clecompoled by vegetables in the fnn's light, and rccompofed in the atmofpherc 204 Mytholog-ical interpretation of Jupiter and Juno dciigncd a; an emblem of the com-polirion of water from two airs. 26o Death of Mr,. French 308 Tomb of Mr. Brindley 3-J.L I nvcntion of the pump. The pi!l:on lifts the atmofplrere ahov~ it. The fl1rrounding atmofphcrc prclles np the water into the vacuum. Manner in which a child fucks 366 Air-cell in engi nes for cx tinguiflting fire. Water difpcr·fcrl by the explofion of Gunpowder. llonfc pn.: fervc1l from fire by earth on the fl oors, by a lecond cieling of iron-p l.nes or co:~rfe mortar. \Vood im-prcgn: tted with alabaflcror ll ~n t 406 Mnfwlar a ·l:ions and fenfatlons of plants 46o H iver Achelous. lT orn of Plenty 495 Flooding lands dcfencls them from vernal d1e Nile. Anubi~Jwngout upon their temples I 29 F frolls. Some fprill,!!S depoli t calca reous earth. Some contain azotic gas, which co nt~ibutcs to produce nitre. Snow 1~ater· lefs ierv1ceable 450 f |