Celestial scenery, or, The Wonders of the planetary system displayed : illustrating the perfections of deity and a plurality of worlds (1845)
Dick, Thomas, 1774-1857, Parker, E. S., former owner. DSI, David H. DeVorkin Collection (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries) DSI · Philadelphia : Published by Edward C. Biddle · leaf 241
or three hundred miles. These ranges bear adistant resemblance to our Alps, Apennines, and Andes, butthey are much less in extent, and do not form a very promi-nent feature of the lunar surface. Some of them appear veryrugged and precipitous, and the highest ranges are, in someplaces, above four… … VARIETIES ON THE LUNAR SURFACE. 233 cases they assume the form of a semicircle or a crescent. 3. Another class of the lunar mountains is the circular rangeswhich appear on almost every part of the moons surface, par-ticularly in its southern regions. This is one of the grandpeculiarities of the…
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