| John Playfair - 1812 - 344 pągines
...great a cause of cold ; 2do, By turning up the soil, and exposing it to the rays of the sun ; 3tio, By thinning or cutting down forests, which . . by...the phenomena, which, from the magnitude and variety f their causes, seemed most superior to his controul. At Guiana in South America, the rainy season... | |
| Andrew Ure - 1821 - 436 pągines
...century ago, were obliged to alleviate the severity of the cold, by evening fires. Even the duration of the rainy season 'has been shortened by the clearing of the country, and the warmth is so increased, that a fire now would be deemed an annoyance. It thunders continually in the woods,... | |
| Patrick Murphy - 1825 - 180 pągines
...century ago, were obliged to alleviate the severity of the cold by evening fires. Even the duration of the rainy season has been shortened by the clearing of the country, and the warmth is so increased, that a fire now would be deemed an annoyance — it thunders continually in the woods;... | |
| Andrew Ure - 1827 - 904 pągines
...century ago, were obliged to alleviate the severity of the cold by evening fires. Even the duration of the rainy season has been shortened by the clearing of the country, and the warmth is so inereaaed, that a fire now would be deemed an annoyance. It thunders continually in the woods,... | |
| T H. Howe - 1842 - 458 pągines
...century ago were obliged to alleviate the severity of the cold by evening fires. " Even the duration of the rainy season has been shortened by the clearing of the country ; and the warmth is so increased, that a fire now would be deemed an annoyance. It thunders continually in the woods,... | |
| George Barrell Emerson - 1846 - 656 pągines
...century ago, were obliged to alleviate the severity of the cold by evening fires. Even the duration of the rainy season has been shortened by the clearing of the country, and the warmth is so increased, that a fire now •would be deemed an annoyance." — Ure's Dictionary of Chemittry,—... | |
| 1855 - 654 pągines
...cenlury ago, were obliged to alleviate the severity of tho cold by evening dree. Even the duration of the rainy season has been .shortened by the clearing of the country, and the warmth is so Increased, that a Ore now would be deemed nt) annoyance.' — æ7re'e Dictionary qf Cheniulri/,... | |
| 1855 - 396 pągines
...century ago, were obliged to alleviate the severity of the cold by evening fires. Even the duration of the rainy season has been shortened by the clearing of the country, and the warmth is so increased, that a fire now would be deemed an annoyance."— Ure's Dictionary of Chemistry,—article... | |
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