Donnelly, Ignatius, 1831-1901 · New York, D. Appleton and Company · leaf 105
he tail, would receive and intercept the mass of mate-rial—stones, gravel, and the finely-ground-up-dust which,compacted by water, is now clay—which came in con-tact with it, while the comet would sail off into space, 92 THE COMET. demoralized, perhaps, in its orbit, like Lexells cometwhen it… … The Comet sweeping past the Earth. objects represented, and thus show the immensity of thesun as compared with our insignificant little orb. In apicture showing the true proportions of the sun and earth,the sun would have to be so large that it would take upthe entire page, while the earth would be…
Atlantis (Legendary place) · Drift · Comets
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