| 1826 - 722 pagina’s
...their position and colours, as" ma king a rust ling and crackling noise, not unlike thai produced from the waving of a large flag in a. fresh gale of wind." Now it appears truly singular that Captain Parry and his Lieutenants could not hear the least sound,... | |
| Jeremy Belknap - 1812 - 368 pagina’s
...journey to the northern ocean says, that he has frequently heard the. northern lights " make a rustling and crackling noise, like the waving of a large flag in a fresh gale of wind." — Page 224, 4to edition. CHAP. III. Face of the Country. — Sea-coast.— Mountains. FHE whole extent... | |
| Thomas Douglas Earl of Selkirk - 1816 - 56 pagina’s
...varying their colours and positions. ' I have frequently,' says Hearne, ' heard them making a rustling and crackling noise, like the waving of a large flag in a fresh gale of wind.' The electric aura, it is well known, will raise the mercury in the tube of the thermometer, but no... | |
| 1817 - 590 pagina’s
...varymg their colours and positions. ' I have frequently,' says Hearne, ' heard them making a rustling and crackling noise, like the waving of a large flag in a fresh gale of wind.' The electric aara, it is well known, will raise tire mercury in the tube of the thermometer, but no... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1818 - 600 pagina’s
...' I have frequently,' says Hearne, a plain unostentatious traveller, ' heard them making a rustling and crackling noise, like the waving of a large flag in a fresh gale of wind.' On the I Oth of May, 1815, Dr. Henderson again set out from Reykiavik to complete his mission by visiting... | |
| Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1826 - 370 pagina’s
...fire-works ; and, lastly, that respectable traveller, Hearne, says, that he has heard them make a rustling and crackling noise, " like the waving of a large flag in a fresh gale of wind." Nearly allied to the corruscations of the Northern lights, is the luminous appearance occasionally... | |
| 1826 - 370 pagina’s
...fire-works ; and, lastly, that respectable traveller, Hearne, says, that he has heard them make a rustling and crackling noise, " like the waving of a large flag in a fresh gale of wind." Nearly allied to the corruscations of the Northern lights, is the luminous appearance occasionally... | |
| 1826 - 370 pagina’s
...fire-works ; and, lastly, that respectable traveller, Hearae, says, that he has heard them make a rustling and crackling noise, " like the waving of a large flag in a fresh gale of wind." Nearly allied to the corruscations of the Northern lights, is the luminous appearance occasionally... | |
| 1827 - 442 pagina’s
...meteors. I can positively affirm, that, in still nights, I have frequently heard them making a rustling and crackling noise, like the waving of a large flag in a fresh gale of wind." It is probable that these lights are sometimes much nearer the earth than at others, and this may have... | |
| 1827 - 640 pagina’s
...positively affirms, that in still nights, he has frequently heard the northern lights make " a rustling and crackling noise, like the waving of a large flag in a fresh gale of wind." Is it improbable that the noise, or the absence of it, depends upon the electric, or non-electric state... | |
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