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 by Jared Sparks, Band 6Childs & Peterson, 1840 |
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... cloud ; I suppose his clouds were first , and then the spout ; I do not know whether it be so with all spouts , but sup- pose it is . Now , if whirlwinds carried up the water , I should expect them in fair weather , but not under a cloud ...
... cloud ; I suppose his clouds were first , and then the spout ; I do not know whether it be so with all spouts , but sup- pose it is . Now , if whirlwinds carried up the water , I should expect them in fair weather , but not under a cloud ...
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... cloud . That wind is generated in clouds will not admit of a dispute . Now , if such wind be generated within the . body of the cloud , and issue in one particular place , while it finds no passage in the other parts of the cloud , I ...
... cloud . That wind is generated in clouds will not admit of a dispute . Now , if such wind be generated within the . body of the cloud , and issue in one particular place , while it finds no passage in the other parts of the cloud , I ...
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... cloud from whence it might come ; and was in hopes it would soon lose its force . In four or five minutes ' time , it came within a cable's length of us , and passed away to leeward ; and then I saw a long pale stream coming down to the ...
... cloud from whence it might come ; and was in hopes it would soon lose its force . In four or five minutes ' time , it came within a cable's length of us , and passed away to leeward ; and then I saw a long pale stream coming down to the ...
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Causes of Earthquakes 15 December 1737 | 14 |
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