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97 Ditto Abisares Abú Tálib Alexander appear Arrian Asiatic Society Aspect of Sky Bahyrá Banda Banda district bank Barometer Bengal Bhotias Bulb Calcutta Capt Cirro-cumuli Cirro-strati Clear coins colour copies Cultivated Cumuli Cumulo-strati Cyclone ditto ditto Doaba East feet gale ground Gupta heavy hills Hydaspes Inches India Indus Jelum Journal king Lachen Lachoong Lepcha Makkah Meteorological Register Midnight miles month mountain Mukran night Nimbi Noon North observed Phipun Porus Punjaub rain Rájá Ráma Remarks river road rocks S. W. Ditto Ship Sikim South species specimens squalls stone storm Strati Taxila Teesta Temperature Ther Thermometer Thibet trees Tungu valley village weather West wind δὲ καὶ الا الله الى ان اور بن بين پر تو ثم جو سجستان سے على کا کو کي کے لا له ما محمد مرحلة من میں نحو نے هو هی
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Page 143 - Now, from the conclusions in the preceding sections, we are under the necessity of considering the beams of the aurora borealis of a ferruginous nature, because nothing else is known to be magnetic, and consequently, that there exists in the higher regions of the atmosphere an elastic fluid partaking of the properties of iron, or rather of magnetic steel, and that this fluid, doubtless from its magnetic property, assumes the form of cylindric beams.
Page 585 - AM the black-bulb thermometer rose in the sun to 130°. The morning observation before 10 or 11 AM always gives a higher result than at noon, though the sun's declination is so considerably less, and in the hottest part of the day it is lower still (3^ p. M. 109°), an effect no doubt due to the vapours raised by the sun, and which equally interfere with the photometer observations.
Page 437 - But it has been the music of gentle and pious minds in all ages, it is the poetry of all human nature, to read it likewise in a figurative sense, and to find therein correspondencies and symbols of the spiritual world.
Page 438 - The drama of Sakuntala presents, through its oriental brilliancy of colouring, so striking a resemblance, upon the whole, to our romantic drama, that it might be suspected the love of Shakespeare had influenced the translator, if other orientalists had not borne testimony to the fidelity of his translation.
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Page 143 - We are under the necessity of considering the learns of the aurora borealis of a ferruginous nature, because nothing else is known to be magnetic ; and consequently that there exists in the higher region of the atmosphere, an electric fluid partaking of the properties of iron, or rather of magnetic steel; and that this fluid, doubtless from its magnetic property, assumes the form of cylindrical beams.