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 6Childs & Peterson, 1840 |
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... rivers may be salter at high water than at low . Some of the salt water , as the tide wave enters the river , runs from its top and fore side , and mixes with the fresh , and also pushes it back up the river . Supposing that the water ...
... rivers may be salter at high water than at low . Some of the salt water , as the tide wave enters the river , runs from its top and fore side , and mixes with the fresh , and also pushes it back up the river . Supposing that the water ...
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... river . The waters , as they run , exposed to the sun , air , and wind , are continually evaporating . Hence in travelling one may often see where a river runs , by a long blueish mist over it , though we are at such a distance as not ...
... river . The waters , as they run , exposed to the sun , air , and wind , are continually evaporating . Hence in travelling one may often see where a river runs , by a long blueish mist over it , though we are at such a distance as not ...
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... river by every flood tide from the sea , and carried down again as far by every tide of ebb , but which has even this space of vibration removed nearer to the sea in wet seasons , when the springs and brooks in the upper country are ...
... river by every flood tide from the sea , and carried down again as far by every tide of ebb , but which has even this space of vibration removed nearer to the sea in wet seasons , when the springs and brooks in the upper country are ...
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A Proposal for promoting Useful Knowledge among | 14 |
TO CADWALLADER COLDEN 4 November 1743 | 25 |
CADWALLADER COLDEN TO B FRANKLIN Dec 1744 | 32 |
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