Flammarion, Camille, 1842-1925, Lockyer, Winifred James, Mrs., d. 1879 · New York, C. Scribner & co. · leaf 157
lost as in a well.Besides being of this size, they are also the seat of variousactions and prodigious phenomena. They are not formed sud-denly as a whole, but increase to the limit they attain, and after-wards diminish. Some only last a few weeks, others months.Now the movements wdth which they are… … Fig. 26—A Cyclonic Sun-spot. with a velocity of two thousand French leagues per minute.In other parts, they have watched circular w^hirlwinds, drag-ging into their commotion large spots like the Earth, andswallowing them up in abysses with fearful velocity. Some-times are seen the crests of stormy…
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