This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ... in the object before us, although the collision of such masses of air may render the effect both excentric and brief In addition to the operation of wind, atmospheric electricity and its opposite may be also found to exert influence; but Dr. Franklin's argument will here suflice, for the upper air is rarer than at the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ... in the object before us, although the collision of such masses of air may render the effect both excentric and brief In addition to the operation of wind, atmospheric electricity and its opposite may be also found to exert influence; but Dr. Franklin's argument will here suflice, for the upper air is rarer than at the base, and the syphon itself is mechanically elevated by the centrifugal effect of its own whirling motion. The gyrations in this sea are thought to be in accordance with the hands of a watch, but their revolving spirally makes this rather difficult to establish; and there may exist a great disparity in their temperature, humidity, and substance. From the earliest times navigators have always, and very naturally, entertained great apprehensions of this phenomenon, the noted Prester (vrpm-riip) of the Greeks, the destroyer of those at sea; of which Lucretius vi. 'v. 422, &c.) gives so terrific a description. But though most sailors still believe it to be dreadfully dangerous, and small craft have been known to founder immediately on being struck, in most cases it would probably benproductive of no serious injury to a vessel of any tolerable size; nor do I believe that a well-authenticated disaster occasioned by these waterspouts to a well-found man-of-war is on record. I had indeed been informed of the staving in of the quarter-deck of an 80-gun ship, the Tow/nant, and of the expression of Sir John Gore, that 'for the first time in his life he was alarmed: ' but on my asking particulars of that oflicer, he neither recollected the accident, nor the exclamation--so uncertain is hear-say evidence. Yet careful seamen should avoid this phenomenon, and as it is moved in space by the prevailing wind, which is acting equally on the...
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