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Page 357 - ... shape of long downy crystals of exceeding delicacy. From damp spots it may be brushed off every two or three days almost in basketsful. In consequence of all this, the ground, even in hot weather, is so damp, that it is extremely difficult either to get earth of sufficient tenacity to make bricks (the country being quite destitute of stones), or, when made, to find a spot sufficiently solid to sustain the weight of a house. Even with the greatest care the ground at last yields, and the saltpetre...
Page 412 - Ventos et varium caeli praediscere morem Cura sit ac patrios cultusque habitusque locorum, Et quid quaeque ferat regio et quid quaeque recuset.
Page 393 - ... plusieurs endroits de ces fraîches vallées La botanique offre le plus grand intérêt sur les montagnes de Nellygerry par la différence qui existe entre les plantes de cette contrée et celles de la plaine ; on y trouve un très grand nombre de genres analogues à ceux d'Europe, tels sont : racctut'uw, Rhododendron, Fragaria, Rubus, Anémone, Balsamina, Géranium, Mespilus, Plantago, Rosa, Satix, Berlieris, etc.
Page 357 - ... greatest care the ground at last yields, and the saltpetre corrodes the best of the bricks to such a degree, that the whole house gradually sinks several inches below its original level. Houses built of inferior materials, of course suffer much more ; one, of which the inner foundations were of unburnt bricks, absolutely fell down whilst I was at Mullye, and the family in it escaped almost by miracle. My own house, which was not much better, sank so much, and the walls were at bottom so evidently...
Page 233 - THIS substance, (which is soluble in water,) softened with a few drops of spirits of wine, was on the point of a lancet inserted in the inside of the thighs of two pigeons. Vomiting two or three times, and three or four evacuations (one or two of which were watery) occurred, general uneasiness and languor were manifested, and they both died in a convulsive fit of about two minutes duration, one in forty minutes, and the other in forty-two minutes after the insertion of this poison.
Page 416 - Abscess, published in the sixth volume of the Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta.
Page 72 - Where they fall upon the snow-clad surface of the ice or land, they are, in a great measure, reflected, without producing any material elevation of temperature ; but when they impinge on the black exterior of a ship, the pitch on one side occasionally becomes fluid, while ice is rapidly generated...
Page 237 - ... hopes and prospects of the past. The thought of abandoning the country and all that must be left in it is abhorrent to my feelings, and I prefer to struggle for its restoration and share its fate, rather than to give up all as lost. I have a great admiration for Mexico ; the salubrity of its climate, the fertility of its soil, and the magnificence of its scenery, possess for me great charms ; but I still look with delight upon the mountains of my native State.
Page 71 - It is well known to the agriculturist and the gardener, that without the direct influence of the sun, whatever may be the temperature of the air, the fruits of the earth seldom come to perfection. What, then, is the force of this important agent ? what the modifications to which it is subject? and how is its energy spent, when screened by concrete vapours from the surface of the earth?
Page 234 - ... and attempted to move. The giddiness remained two or three minutes, and returned in the same manner at an interval of a quarter of an hour. At half past three it had a copious watery evacuation, and from that period it remained in a languid state without any other symptoms being manifested, until ten minutes after six, when a slight convulsive fit came on, and it died two minutes afterwards. A third and fourth pigeon were infected in the same manner with this poison. In both, symptoms were manifested...