 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1818 - 604 pagina’s
...be seen. Mr. Bonpland relates, that, from the beginning of the phenomenon, there was not a space in the firmament equal in extent to three diameters of...every instant with bolides and falling stars. The first were fewer in number, but as they were seen of different sizes, it was impossible to fix the... | |
 | 1818 - 384 pagina’s
...be seen. Mr. Bonpland relates, that from the beginning of the phenomenon, there was not a space in the firmament equal in extent to three diameters of...every instant with bolides and falling stars. The first were fewer in number. TJiry all left luminous traces of from five to ten degrees in length, the... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 768 pagina’s
...phenomenon, there was not a space in the firmament equal in extent to three diameters of the moon, which was not filled at every instant with bolides and falling stars. The first were fewer in number, but as they were seen of different sizes, it was impossible to fix the... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - 1822 - 592 pagina’s
...be seen. Mr Bonpland relates, that, from the beginning of the phenomenon, there was not a space in the firmament equal in extent to three diameters of...every instant with bolides and falling stars. The first were fewer in number, but as they were seen of different sizes, it was impossible to fix the... | |
 | 1824 - 394 pagina’s
...be seen, Mr. Bonpland relates, that from the beginning of the phenomenon, there was not a space in the firmament equal in extent to three diameters of...every instant with bolides and falling stars. The first were fewer in number. They all left luminous traces of from five to ten degrees in length, the... | |
 | George Croly - 1830 - 432 pagina’s
...Bonpland relates that, from the beginning of the phenomenon, there was not a space in the firmament equal to three diameters of the moon, that was not filled at every instant with bolides or falling stars. The first were fewer in number, but, as they were seen of different sizes, it was... | |
 | 1867 - 878 pagina’s
..." Personal Narrative," states that, from the beginning of the phenomenon, there was not a space in the firmament equal in extent to three diameters of...filled at every instant with bolides and falling stars; while in 1766 the inhabitants of Cumana had beheld the neighbouring volcano, Cayamba, veiled for an... | |
 | 1864 - 968 pagina’s
...25° or 30° Mr. Bonpland relates, that from tha beginning of the phenomenon there was not a space in the firmament equal in extent to three diameters of...at every instant with bolides and falling stars The Guoiqueries in the Indian suburb came out and asserted that the firework had begun ut one o'clock.... | |
 | Francis Beckford Ward - 1866 - 600 pagina’s
...amongst other illustrations, that, " from the beginning of the phenomenon there was not a space in the firmament equal in extent to three diameters of...the moon, that was not filled at every instant with fulling stars." Again in the year 1833, the meteors were compared in numbers to snow-flakes in a («now-storm... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1866 - 752 pagina’s
...commencing at about half-past two ; and that from the beginning of the phenomenon there was not a space in the firmament equal in extent to three diameters of...the moon that was not filled at every instant with the luminous meteors. Another observer, at Cayenne, compared the appearance to " the blazing sheaves... | |
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Bonpland relates, that from the beginning of the phenomenon there was not a space in the firmament equal in extent to three diameters of the moon, that was not filled at every instant with bolides and falling stars. 
