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 396
much as to obscure the sky, and,without falling in rain, dissolve, and leave nota rack behind. But when the twain-cloud hasbeen formed, it sometimes goes on to increase indensity and assume a black and portentous dark-ness. Shortly afterwards the intensity of thisblackness yields to a more gray… … rain. The shower continues until another interiorchange succeeds, when the nimbus is extinct, andmore or less of other modifications reappear; thecurl-cloud, wane-cloud, or perhaps the sonder-cloud is seen in the higher regions of the atmo-sphere, and the remaining stacken-cloud, no longerretarded,…
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