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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1859 Excerpt: ... exultation on the first wintry morning, when, on gazing o'er the landscape, he sees "The cherished fields Put on their winter robe of purest white." Every healthful boy knows this ecstacy, and every healthful man will renew his juvenile transport as he sees the wild dazzling waste of snow. There is a gloomy magnificence in a snowstorm--when the air is darkened, and through its dim light you see, far as the eye can pierce, the endless rapid whirling fall of the broad airy flakes; but in the morning, when the upper heavens, having discharged their thick fleecy burdens, are again brilliantly blue, and the sun's light flashes back from the glistening, spotless snow, there is a fascinating, cheerful beauty in the panorama to which few are insensible. "The snow, the snow, 'tis a pleasant thing To see it falling, falling Down upon earth with noiseless wing As at some spirit's calling. Each flake's a fairy parachute From teeming clouds let down; And earth is still and air is mute As frost's enchanted zone." Truly a pleasant thing to see, and a noiseless. But did it ever occur to any of our readers to inquire what might be the noise and commotion, if by any means a mechanical obstacle were to be, or could be, presented to the formation of this snow--this quiet, soft, harmless, flaky sheet? Let us examine. Each flake of snow is made up of a multitude of little hexagonal or stellar crystals of ice, or congealed water. Suppose we take a vessel of water and cool it down gradually: it may fell some degrees below the freezing-point (32Q F.) without solidifying, if it be kept perfectly motionless during the process. But touch it, or shake it ever so gently, and it shoots into crystals and becomes solid ice immediately, the temperature rising to 32 again. All this is done v...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781154163018
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 322
  • Spine Width: 17 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1154163016
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 576 gr


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