The dew-drop and the mist; or, An account of the nature, properties, dangers, and uses of dew and mist [by C. Tomlinson. No.4 of an unnamed ser.]. |
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Strana 11 - My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass : Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
Strana 83 - Fog is, of all others," says Captain Franklin, "the most hazardous state of the atmosphere for navigation in an icy sea, especially where it is accompanied by strong breezes ; but particularly so for boats where the shore is unapproachable. If caught by a gale, a heavy swell, or drifting ice, the result must be their wreck, or the throwing their provisions overboard, to lighten them so as to proceed in shoal water.
Strana 84 - ... leading to the southward. The ship had rapid way on her, and was much tossed about, when in an instant all was perfectly still and quiet; the transition was so sudden that many were awakened by it from sound sleep, and all well knew, from the short experience we had had, that the cessation of the sound and motion usual at sea, was a proof that we had run within a line of ice, — an occurrence from which the feeling of great danger is inseparable. The watch was called by the officer of the deck,...
Strana 111 - In warm summer mornings the valleys are filled with a dense white fog, "so that when the sun rises, the upper parts of the hills are all bathed in yellow sheen, looking like golden islands in a sea of silver. After one ascends through the mist to within a certain distance of the sunshine, a halo of glory is thrown round his head, something like a rainbow, but brighter and paler.
Strana 85 - The feeling is awful," says the commander, " and the uncertainty most trying, thus to enter within the icy barrier, blindfolded, as it were, by an impenetrable fog, and the thought constantly recurring, that both ship and crew were in imminent danger; yet I was satisfied that nothing could be gained but by pursuing this course. On we kept, until it was reported to me, by attentive listeners, that they heard the low and distant rustling of ice : suddenly, a dozen voices proclaimed the barrier to be...
Strana 27 - In the second place ; dew is always very copious on those clear and calm nights which are followed by misty or foggy mornings...
Strana 39 - A greater quantity of dew has also been observed to form betweeen midnight and sunrise than between sunset and midnight." " The appearance of dew is not confined to any one part of the night, but occurs during its whole course, from means the most simple and efficacious. For after one part of the air has deposited its moisture on the colder surface of the earth, it is removed in consequence of that agitation in the atmosphere which exists during its stillest states, and gives place to another having...
Strana 45 - I found the stubbles and clover-grounds matted all over with a thick coat of cobweb, in the meshes of which a copious and heavy dew hung so plentifully that the whole face of the country seemed, as it were, covered with two or three setting nets drawn one over another.
Strana 111 - Having to pass the same spot at the same hour on the next morning, he resolved, if possible, to exert a little more courage, and put the appearance fairly to the proof. " The fog was more dense than on the preceding morning, and when the sun rose his brilliancy and fervour were more bright above. The lovely halo was thrown around me, and at length I reached the haunted spot, without diverging a step from my usual little footpath ; and at the very place there arose the same terrible apparition which...
Strana 85 - ... dozen voices proclaimed the barrier to be in sight just a-head. The ship, which a moment before seemed as if unpeopled, from the stillness of all on board, was instantly alive with the bustle of performing the evolutions necessary to bring her to the wind which was unfavourable to a return on the sama track by which we had entered.