 | William Nicholson - 1810 - Страниц: 844
...followed a rapid succession '• of reports less loud — so as to produce a continued " rumbling. This noise continued about as long as the " body was in rising, and died away apparently in the di«' rection from which the meteor came." — Mr. Staples observed, " that when the meteor disappeared,... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1808 - Страниц: 708
...loud, and running into each other, so as to produce a continued rumbling, like that of a cannon ball rolling over a floor, sometimes louder, and at other...Time was differently estimated by different people. Some augmened the number of loud reports, and terror and imagination seem, in various instances, to... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1808 - Страниц: 710
...or, to a volley of musqi'.etry, protracted into what is called, in military language, a running Jire. This noise continued about as long as the body was...Time was differently estimated by different people. Some augmened the number of loud reports, and terror and imagination seem, in various instances, to... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1809 - Страниц: 532
...and at other timea, fainter : some compared it to the noise of a waggon, running rapidly down a lopg and stony hill; or, to a volley of musquetry, protracted...Time was differently estimated by different people. Some augmented the number of loud reports, and terror and imagination seem, in various instances, to... | |
 | 1809 - Страниц: 688
...a floor, sometimes louder and at other times fainter ; some compared it to the noise of a wair^on, running rapidly down a long and stony hill; or to...running fire. This noise continued about as long as the l«ody was in rising, and died away, apparently in the direction from wliich the meteor came. ,13]... | |
 | 1809 - Страниц: 672
...running rapidly dowu a long and stony Tiill ; or toa volley óf musc]iiclrv, protracted into win t is called, in military language, a running fire. This noise continued about as long a« the Inxlywas in rising, and died rtwav, apparently in the direction from which tne meteor came.... | |
 | Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1810 - Страниц: 458
...to the noise of a waggon, running rapidly down a long and stony hill ; or, to a volley of musketry, protracted into what is called, in military language,...Time was differently estimated by different people. Some augmented the number of loud reports, and terror and imagination seem, in various instances, to... | |
 | 1812 - Страниц: 696
...after this, three loud and distinct reports, like those of a four-pounder near at hand, were heard. This noise continued about as long as the body was...apparently in the direction from which the meteor came. When the meteor disappeared, there were three successive eftbr s or leaps of the fire-hall, which grew... | |
 | 1812 - Страниц: 394
...three loud and distinct reports, like those of a four-pounder near at hand, were heard. This noist; continued about as long as the body was in rising,...apparently in the direction from which the meteor came. When the meteor disappeared, there were three successive effor:s or leaps of the fire-ball, which grew... | |
 | 1813 - Страниц: 670
...rumbling, like that of a cannon ball rolling over a floor. sometimes louder, and at other times fainter. This noise continued about as long as the body was...apparently in the direction from which the meteor came.' p. 142, 143. The meteor was seen as far south as New-York, at Colchester, fifty miles east of Weston,... | |
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... protracted into what is called in military language, a running fire. This noise continued about as long as the body was in rising, and died away apparently in the direction from which the meteor came. 
