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v. Atmospheric unknown Bodies

ii. Variation of Local Heat

XXXIV. Atmospherical Department

SECT. i. Composition of the Atmosphere

ii. Atmospheric Air

iii. Atmospheric Water

iv. Atmospheric Carbonic Acid

vi. Variation of the Atmosphere

XXXV. Zones and Climates

XXXVI Nature, Properties, and Variations of Heat

SECT. i. Sources and Effects of Heat

iii. Variation of Heat in Countries best known, or most

XXXVII. Degrees and Effects of severe Cold in High

SECT. I. Cold of the South Polar Regions

ii. Ice-Islands, and Sufferings of Lieutenant Riou, in

the Guardian Frigate

iv. The same, as ascertained by Capt. Cook, with his

iii. Cold of the North Polar Regions, as ascertained by

Discovery of a Passage from the Pacific Ocean,

v. State of the Globe within the Arctic Circle

vi. Effects of Cold at Hudson's Bay, in 1741.2

vii. Extraordinary degree of Cold at Glasgow, in Jan.

XXXVIII. Evaporation

XXXIX. Formation and Nature of Dew, Mist, Fogs,

Clouds, Rain, Snow, and Hail

SECT. i. General Remarks

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v. Violent Showers of Rain in different places

vi. Storm of Salt Rain

vii. Volcanic Showers, or Rain

1. General Remarks

2. Showers of Ashes in the Archipelago

3. Shower of Dust that fell on a Ship near Iceland

4. New kind of Rain

5. Surprising Shoal of Pumice Stones found floating

2. Mode of its Formation

x. Snow of a Red Colour

viii. Shower of Fishes

ix. On the Nature of Snow

1. Configuration of its Crystals

1. Descent of Red Snow at Genoa

xi. Avalanches, or falling Masses of detached and in-

cumbent Snow-heaps, from the Summits of lofty

xii. General Nature of Hail

xiii. Violent Hail-Storms, accompanied with Stones of

XL. On Winds, or Atmospherical Currents

SECT. i. General Remarks on the Nature and Origin of Winds,

Trade Winds, Monsoons, Partial Winds, and Hur.

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vi. Occasional Winds; as Hurricanes, Tempests, Tor-

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6. Dreadful Whirlwind at Cambridge, New England 249

7. Whirlwind at Corne Abbas, Dorsetshire

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SECT. i. Its relation to common Matter

ii. Communication and Velocity of Electricity

iii. Atmospherical Electricity

XLIII. Electricity of Thunder and Lightning

SECT. i. General History of this Interesting Discovery

ii. Invention and Curious Properties of the Electrical

iii. Means of preventing Mischief from Lightning

iv. Thunder-Storms remarkable for their Violence or

v. Death of Professor Richman by Lightning

XLIV. On Magnetism

SECT. I. General Remarks on the Theory of Magnetism

ii. On the Cause of the Change in the Magnetic Needle 377

iii. Magnetic Experiments

XLV. Aurora Borealis and Australis

SECT. i. General History and Remarks

ii. Surprising Lights in the Air, March 6, 1716

iii. Lumen Boreale, or Streaming

iv. Remarkable Red Lights seen in various places in

the Air, Dec. 16, 1737

ii. Various Extraordinary Meteors, or Lights, in the

iii. Blazing Meteor seen all over England, March 19,

iv. Meteor of a Flaming Sword seen in Yorkshire, and

v. Luminous Meteor at Peckham

vi. Various Fiery Meteors, with Observations

SECT. vii. Various Fiery Meteors, with Balls that have de-

scended to the Earth

viii. Observations on Fire-Balls

ix. Aërolites, or Meteoric Stones

1. General History and Observations

x. Falling or Shooting Stars

2. Lunar, or Selenitic Origin of Meteoric Stones

XLVII. On Luminous and Burning Exhalations under

the Names of Ignes Fatui; Will-o'-the-

Wisps; Jack-o'- Lanthorns;

Lights; and St. Helmo's Fires

SECT. i. General Remarks

ii. Of the Ignis Fatuus, as observed in England

iii. Luminous and Inflammable Exhalations on the

Snows of the Appennines

iv. Fiery Exhalations or Damp, that set on Fire various

Hay Ricks in Pembrokeshire

XLVIII. On Atmospheric Deceptions, Fata Morgana,

Mirages, Glamer or Looming, Halos, Mul-

tiplicd Rainbows; Parhelions and Parasele-

nites, or Mock-Suns, and Mock-Moons;

Glories; Refraction of Iceland Crystal

SECT. i. Explanation of the principle, of Atmospheric Decep-

tions

ii. Fata Morgana; or Optical Appearances of Figures

in the Sea and Air, in the Faro of Messina

iii. Singular Instance of Atmospherical Refraction, by

which the Coast of Picardy was brought apparently

close to that of Hastings

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iv. On Refractions and Double Refractions in the Atmo

v. Parhelia, or Mock-Suns, seen at Dantzic

vi. Pyramidal Appearance in the Heavens, observed in

vii. Parhelia at Sudbury, Suffolk

viii. Two Mock-Suns and an Arc of a Rainbow in-

ix. Beautiful Irridescent Arches in a Mist

x. Peculiar Solar and Lunar Irises in South America

xi. Lunar Rainbow in Derbyshire

xii. Description of a Glory on Mount Realt, near the

XLIX. Of Sounds and Echoes

Whispering Domes, and Echoes

SECT. i. General Observations on the Nature of Sound,

ii. Extraordinary Whispering Places and Echoes

iii. Singular Sympathetic Action of Two Pendulum

Clocks on each other

THE

GALLERY

OF

NATURE AND ART

PART I.

NATURE.

BOOK II.

GEOLOGY.

[CONTINUED.]

CHAP. XXXIV.

ATMOSPHERICAL DEPARTMENT.

We now advance to the atmospherical phænomena of the science of Geology, in the extensive sense in which we have employed this term; and shall proceed to a brief survey of whatever is most curious or worthy of observation in the composition of the Atmosphere; the variation of Climate; the extremes of Heat and Cold; the existence of Electricity and electric Powers, as Thunder and Lightning, Aurora Borealis, Water-spouts; Falling-stars, and Ignes Fatui; Echoes, Wind, Hurricanes, and Storms; the origin of Mist, Dew, Sleet, Snow, Mirages, or Fata Morgana, Meteoric, Stones, and various other appearances connected with or dependent upon the preceding; and which collectively constitute the Science of Meteorology.

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