 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1846 - 396 pages
...I have sent (June, 1845) a full account of the falling of this dust to the Geological Society. ca, and at points sixteen hundred miles distant in a north...collected on a vessel three hundred miles from the land, I was much surprised to find particles of stone above the thousandth of an inch square, mixed with finer... | |
 | Robley Dunglison - Physiology - 1846 - 704 pages
...particles of sand are transmitted for hundreds of miles from their original seat (see vol. ip 136). In some dust, which was collected on a vessel three hundred miles from the land, Mr. Darwin" was much surprised to find particles of stone above the thousandth of an inch square, mixed... | |
 | Robley Dunglison - 1856 - 768 pages
...particles of sand are transmitted hundreds of miles from their original seat (see vol. ip 718). In dust, which was collected on a vessel three hundred miles from the land, Mr. Darwin1 was much surprised to find particles of stone above the thousandth of an inch square, mixed... | |
 | John Brocklesby - Meteorology - 1859 - 286 pages
...when far out on the Atlantic. It has often fallen upon them when they were several hundred, and even a thousa/nd miles from the coast of Africa, and at...hundred miles distant in a north and south direction. 597. In some of the dust collected upon a vessel three hundred miles from land, particles of stone... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - Biology - 1861 - 446 pages
...owing to the obscurity of the atmosphere. It has often fallen on ships when several hundred, and even more than a thousand miles from the coast of Africa,...collected on a vessel three hundred miles from the land, I was much surprised to find particles of stone, about the thousandth of an inch square, mixed with finer... | |
 | A Journal of Horticulture, Rural and Domestic Economy, Botany and Natural History - 1861 - 532 pages
...owing to the obscurity of the atmosphere. It has often fallen on ships when several hundred, and even more than a thousand, miles from the coast of Africa,...collected on a vessel three hundred miles from the land, I was much surprised to find particles of stone, above the thousandth of an inch square, mixed with finer... | |
 | 1863 - 788 pages
...owing to the obscurity of the atmosphere. It has often fallen on ships when several hundred, and even more than a thousand, miles from the coast of Africa,...collected on a vessel three hundred miles from the land, I was much surprised to find particles of stone, about the thousandth of an inch square, mixed with finer... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1871 - 546 pages
...owing to the obscurity of the atmosphere. It has often fallen on ships when several hundred, and even more than a thousand miles from the coast of Africa,...collected on a vessel three hundred miles from the land, I was much surprised to find particles of stone above the thousandth of an inch square, mixed with finer... | |
 | 1872 - 852 pages
...owing to the obscurity of the atmosphere. It has often fallen on ships when several hundred, and even more than a thousand miles from the coast of Africa,...hundred miles distant in a north and south direction." — Journal of Researches in a Voyage Sound the World, by Charles Darwin, FKS London: Murray, 1845.... | |
 | Charles Harrison Blackley - Hay fever - 1873 - 248 pages
...owing to the obscurity of the atmosphere. It has often fallen on ships when several hundred, and even more than a thousand miles from the coast of Africa,...hundred miles distant in a north and south direction." — Journal of Researches in a Voyage Round the World, by Charles Darwin, FRS London: Murray 1845.... | |
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The dust falls in such quantities as to dirty everything on board, and to hurt people's eyes ; vessels even have run on shore owing to the obscurity of the atmosphere. It has often fallen on ships when several hundred, and even more than a thousand miles... 
