 | 1826 - 722 דפים
...their position and colours, as" ma king a rust ling and crackling noise, not unlike thai produced from the waving of a large flag in a. fresh gale of wind." Now it appears truly singular that Captain Parry and his Lieutenants could not hear the least sound,... | |
 | Jeremy Belknap - 1812 - 368 דפים
...in his journey to the northern ocean says, that he has frequently heard the. northern lights " make a rustling and crackling noise, like the waving of a large flag in a fresh gale of wind." — Page 224, 4to edition. CHAP. III. Face of the Country. — Sea-coast.— Mountains. FHE whole extent... | |
 | Thomas Douglas Earl of Selkirk - 1816 - 56 דפים
...to be distinctly heard in varying their colours and positions. ' I have frequently,' says Hearne, ' heard them making a rustling and crackling noise,...the waving of a large flag in a fresh gale of wind.' The electric aura, it is well known, will raise the mercury in the tube of the thermometer, but no... | |
 | 1817 - 590 דפים
...to be distinctly heard in varymg their colours and positions. ' I have frequently,' says Hearne, ' heard them making a rustling and crackling noise,...the waving of a large flag in a fresh gale of wind.' The electric aara, it is well known, will raise tire mercury in the tube of the thermometer, but no... | |
 | Edward Chappell - 1817 - 312 דפים
...affirm," says he*, " that in still nights I have frequently " heard the northern lights make a rus" tling and crackling noise, like the waving " of a large flag in a fresh gale of wind. " This is not peculiar to the place of which " I am now writing (the Athapusco Lake), " as I have heard... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1818 - 600 דפים
...of artificial fire- works.' ' I have frequently,' says Hearne, a plain unostentatious traveller, ' heard them making a rustling and crackling noise,...the waving of a large flag in a fresh gale of wind.' On the I Oth of May, 1815, Dr. Henderson again set out from Reykiavik to complete his mission by visiting... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1826 - 370 דפים
...artificial fire-works ; and, lastly, that respectable traveller, Hearne, says, that he has heard them make a rustling and crackling noise, " like the waving of a large flag in a fresh gale of wind." Nearly allied to the corruscations of the Northern lights, is the luminous appearance occasionally... | |
 | 1826 - 370 דפים
...artificial fire-works ; and, lastly, that respectable traveller, Hearae, says, that he has heard them make a rustling and crackling noise, " like the waving of a large flag in a fresh gale of wind." Nearly allied to the corruscations of the Northern lights, is the luminous appearance occasionally... | |
 | 1826 - 370 דפים
...artificial fire-works ; and, lastly, that respectable traveller, Hearne, says, that he has heard them make a rustling and crackling noise, " like the waving of a large flag in a fresh gale of wind." Nearly allied to the corruscations of the Northern lights, is the luminous appearance occasionally... | |
 | 1827 - 640 דפים
...Hearne positively affirms, that in still nights, he has frequently heard the northern lights make " a rustling and crackling noise, like the waving of a large flag in a fresh gale of wind." Is it improbable that the noise, or the absence of it, depends upon the electric, or non-electric state... | |
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I can positively affirm, that in still nights I have frequently heard them make a rustling and crackling noise, like the waving of a large flag in a fresh gale of wind. 
