The wonders of the heavens, being a popular view of astronomy, including a full illustration of the mechanism of the heavens; embracing the sun, moon, and stars, with descriptions of the planets, comets, fixed stars, double stars, the constellations, the galaxy, or milky-way, the zodiacal light, aurora borealis, or norhtern lights, meteors, clouds, falling stars, aërolites, &c (1837)
Bradford, Duncan. [from old catalog] · Boston, American stationers company · leaf 393
etimes, and appear suddenly, in differ-ent places; while at other times fogs continue forweeks together. SoNDER-cLOUD. This consists of extensive bedsof a number of little, well-defined, orbicular masses of clouds, or small cumuli, in close horizontal oppo-sition, but at the same time lying quite… … clouds.) From the intermediate nature vi thiscloud between the cirrus and cumulus, it has beencalled cirrocumulus. The word sonder-cloud is ofSaxon derivation. Sometimes the nubeculae are very dense in theirstructure, very round in their form, and in veryclose opposition.* At other times they are…
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