The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters Official and Private Not Hitherto Published : with Notes and a Life of the Author, Band 6Tappan, Whittemore, and Mason, 1838 |
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... whole moun- tains and islands . Dr. Woodward gives us another theory of earth- quakes . He endeavours to show , that the subterrane- ous heat , or fire , ( which is continually elevating water out of the abyss , to furnish the earth ...
... whole moun- tains and islands . Dr. Woodward gives us another theory of earth- quakes . He endeavours to show , that the subterrane- ous heat , or fire , ( which is continually elevating water out of the abyss , to furnish the earth ...
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... whole tract , as soon as the shock is over , sinks down into the abyss , and is swallowed up by it ; the water thereof immediately rising up and forming a lake in the place where the said tract before was . That , this effort being made ...
... whole tract , as soon as the shock is over , sinks down into the abyss , and is swallowed up by it ; the water thereof immediately rising up and forming a lake in the place where the said tract before was . That , this effort being made ...
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... whole together with a little water , so as to form a mass , half moist and half dry . This being buried three or four feet under ground , in six or seven hours time , will have a prodigious effect ; the earth will begin to tremble ...
... whole together with a little water , so as to form a mass , half moist and half dry . This being buried three or four feet under ground , in six or seven hours time , will have a prodigious effect ; the earth will begin to tremble ...
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... whole island ; and not Naples and Malta shared in the shock . only that , but It was of the second kind mentioned by Aristotle and Pliny , viz . a VOL . VI . 2 perpendicular pulsation or succussion . It was impos- sible , CAUSES OF ...
... whole island ; and not Naples and Malta shared in the shock . only that , but It was of the second kind mentioned by Aristotle and Pliny , viz . a VOL . VI . 2 perpendicular pulsation or succussion . It was impos- sible , CAUSES OF ...
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... whole rivers of waters , spouted up a great height into the air , and threatening a deluge to that part the earthquake spared . The whole was at- tended with stenches and offensive smells , the noise of falling mountains at a distance ...
... whole rivers of waters , spouted up a great height into the air , and threatening a deluge to that part the earthquake spared . The whole was at- tended with stenches and offensive smells , the noise of falling mountains at a distance ...
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